A few ideas (and perfectly willing to be slapped down by others more 
knowledgeable than I):

1) Isn't MQS designed to do just this sort of thing?  I gather it works across 
platforms of many types.

2) If you're in a roll-your-own mood, you could easily enough write a socket 
client/server in REXX.  (I did this once and it was great fun; I can't resist 
looking for opportunities to do it again.)

3) I once worked on a team for an ACF2 client that had recently acquired a TSS 
shop; we put together some code that sent every change in either security 
database to the other.  New ID created in TSS: create an equivalent in ACF2 on 
the other system, and so on.  That was just around the turn of the century, but 
as I recall we used NDM for the transmission, nowadays called Connect:Direct.  
Figuring out what constitutes the "equivalent" action in two unalike security 
systems required the combined thought of the whole team; the transmission 
itself turned out to be pretty simple.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Steff Gladstone
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 08:06

We have global data pointed to by a name-token that is available to all the 
address spaces in each computer system.  We want to make sure that any updates 
to the data in one system are broadcast to the other computer systems in the 
installation (LPARs or physical computers).  Or at the very least notify the 
other systems that their data is not up-to-date. What would be the simplest and 
cheapest way to send some kind of signal from one system to the other without 
requiring I/O to shared DASD?

We thought of issuing a console command starting a started task in each of the 
other computer systems (the JES2 spool is shared by all the systems).  But this 
is problematic since the required SVC (34) requires that the
program be authorized.   Any other ideas?

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