Both CICS and IMS have (rather different) facilities for mini-batching, triggering FIFO processing of all of them after an waiting-transactions queue reaches a specified length L > 0.
This processing threshold L can be varied without making other changes, and doing so provides a mechanism for balancing initialization and transaction-processing path lengths in a way that minimizes their sum. This optimizing machinery is very important , and even if a RYO scheme is used it should be provided. Limiting the design alternatives considered to just 1) batch, all at the same time, or 2) one-at-a-time processing is unwise. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
