On 12/1/2013 2:20 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I recently had a dispute with Management reagrding the uses of sceduling COBOL
BATCH under an SRB.
Thats Right a Batch COBOL Prpogram runing Under an SRB, moreover under CICS
Transaction Server. A Software Vendor
believes they can solve a program sharing issue by using SRBS
to execute a Batch Cobol Progam.
In a nut shell the user enters a basic CICS transaction code and a PC call is
issued to a Server Address Spaces whose only responsibility is to SCHEDULE an
SRB Back to the specific CICS Region. The SRB then executes a Batch COBOL
program.
Why would *anyone* want to run traditional CICS COBOL in the restricted
environment of an SRB? The TCB environment is so much more robust!
If the SRB is an Enclave SRB enabled for redirection to zIIP, then IMHO
such use of the "zIIP enablement API" is in violation of the License
Agreement between ISVs and IBM -- assuming (<== DISCLAIMER!) other ISVs
all use the same agreement we do. Of course, it's always possible that
IBM, for a substantial licensing fee, has different T&Cs with select
ISVs. If so, I am not privy to those agreements.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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