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 I am a bit outdated in current systems services, so my first suggestion was to 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- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
