Another option:

https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/d0/d000093e.pdf



On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:51, Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a z/VSE client that believes it is time to move to z/OS. But,
> they have one big concern. They have a lot of ShareOption=4 VSAM files.
>
> For those that don't know it, ShareOption=4 files on z/VSE "work out of
> the box" without any need for the application program to perform any
> enqueue or dequeue. z/VSE automatically performs those functions, unlike
> z/OS where the application has to handle the enqueue process.
>
> In their case, they use shareoption=4 so that they can update VSAM files
> from batch Cobol programs while at the same time CICS Cobol programs are
> also updating the files. They don't want to have to change their programs.
>
>  From my initial research, it appears that this same function can be
> reproduced on z/OS using DFHSMStvs. (And, it looks like VSAM-RLS is also
> required to support DFHSMStvs.)
>
> Are we going down the right path?
>
>
> Tony Thigpen
>
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