Have you looked at RLS for VSAM?  Data is held in CF structure.

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Victor Gil
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 8:52 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Easiest way to share incore data between batch jobs
> 
> A co-worker suggested to save CPU by having one job to cache a VSAM file
> [which is frequently looked up by multiple jobs] and introduce a new "look up"
> API to "connect" to that job and locate a particular record with a given key.
> 
> I am a bit outdated in current systems services, so my first suggestion was to
> use EXCI into a CICS region or call a DB2 stored procedure which would act as
> a "server", but the question is - is there an easier way to accomplish this in
> pure batch?  I am familiar with the cross-memory access but this would require
> heavy assembler coding, APF authorization, etc. all of which we are trying to
> avoid.
> 
> TIA!
> -Victor-

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