ASM, in this context anyway, likely refers to the Natural Authorized Services Manager, which I believe (I've been out of SAG product support for many years now) is shipped in base mainframe Natural. Rather than starting yet more SAG address spaces though, I would convert the Natural Global BP to Local BPs.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: z/OS 2.1 to 2.4 [EXTERNAL] ASM is Adabas Parallel Services, I'm not sure why they didn't call it APS, but possibly they already had one by that name. ASM provides Compression, decompression, format buffer translation, sorting, retrieving, searching and updating operations all occur in parallel. So it gives better distribution of your workload across the available processors. You might already be running it and just don't know it, or just don't have the extra address space running that Natural will need. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
