On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Ward, Mike S <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know this is loading a gun :), but do any of you have any opinion on the > SYSB-II product? Is detrimental to CICS? Is it a memory hog? Is it a CPU > hog? And for those of you who use it. How does it perform in a zSystem > environment? > > Thanks. > > We use it extensively. it performs well. it has _never_ been the cause of an outage. it can drive up CPU usage more than native VSAM, of course. We use the automatic SYNC processing to decrease the "lockout" time for massive updates. It was initially acquired for "emergency use only to avoid a CICS outage". It is now almost de regueur for any access to a CICS VSAM data set, other than reorg backups. The minus? It works so well that management regards it as a good replacement for any type of SQL database system. So we remain stuck on VSAM while the rest of the company and world is progressing to advanced data storage. It also gives our end users the idea that z/OS is incapable of easy to use data access. -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
