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=head2 DSN string

The following instruction: 

  my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:MVS_FTPSQL:$DSN", $username, $password)
            or die $DBI::errstr;  

establishes a connection to the DB2 subsystem identified by the DSN string 
C<$DSN>, using as login credentials the C<$username> and C<$password> supplied. 
Notice that in the OS/390 or z/OS environment you don't connect to a 
database, instead you have to connect to the DB2 subsystem which gives 
access to all the databases it contains (a mainframe database has very 
little to do with its pc counterpart as it is basically a logical grouping 
of tables, other objects and so, in many ways, it's more similar to a pc 
schema).   

The DSN string consists of a list of I<argument=value> pairs separated by semicolons,
like the example below: