Most CF services require supervisor state and Key0-7. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 07 September 2010 20:12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Need a simple counter > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john gilmore > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Need a simple counter > > John McKown wrote: > > <begin snippet> > There is no such general facility in z/OS. It is RYO (Roll > Your Own - a reference to the very old days when people > bought tobacco and "paper" separately and "rolled their own" > cigarettes). > </end snippet> > > This is true, but there are facilities available---They are > still used chiefly but not only by IBM subsystems---that make > implementing data sharing within a parallel sysplex easy. > > You do need both hardware and software in place, viz., a > zSeries Coupling Facility (CF), usually a logical partition, > and CF channels linking the systems/'servers' that are > attached to the CF. > <snip> > > John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA Are these facilities available to non-APF authorized users? Is there a way to do something like this in "pure" COBOL (no user written HLASM subroutines / C language / Java / etc.)? -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
