Everyone, Management here has decided that we need to review different products that would allow us the bring our CICS regions up while nightly processing is still running. As a member of a management assigned SWAT team to investigate products, our team has decided to focus on the following three products that would allow concurrent VSAM update from batch and CICS:
1. DFHSMStvs - Transactional VSAM services - Would need to setup VSAM record level sharing and all CF logstreams. Also require JCL changes and coding changes for committing a LUW. 2. VSAM transparency - move data into DB2 and setup proper mapping to DB2 tables. Again have some JCL changes and coding for commits. 3. IAM - Innovation access method - Convert VSAM files to IAM files. Our long term goal is to perform a proper DB2 conversion but that is years (and $$) away, or so I'm told by the applications people. What are your thoughts on this issue? Have any of you done this? Are their other pit falls to look out for? Thanks for your time. Brad S. Carson Manager z/Series Technical Support Enterprise Systems Laboratory Corporation of America (336) 436-8294 ----------------------------------------- This e-mail and any attachments may contain CONFIDENTIAL information, including PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION. If you are not the intended recipient, any use or disclosure of this information is STRICTLY PROHIBITED; you are requested to delete this e-mail and any attachments, notify the sender immediately, and notify the LabCorp Privacy Officer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call (877) 23-HIPAA / (877) 234-4722. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
