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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
