Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-11-02 Thread Allan Staller
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Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-11-01 Thread Joe Monk
"BTW: Few questions Where can I read about VSAM SHR (4 x)? Was SHR (4 x) available on MVS or its predecessor? Is there any "introduction" of VSE disks usage, datasets, and so called file system? How is it similar to z/OS?" You can read about VSAM on VSE in the VSE guides. SHR(4 x) was available o

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-11-01 Thread Joe Monk
"For example I don't know what is partition in VSE and how it is differ from regular address spaces or just several jobs (in VSE) working with same shared VSAM file." Think of the flat 16MB address space, on IBM 370. Now think about a machine that has say 512K of RAM in that address space. So, y

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-11-01 Thread R.S.
W dniu 31.10.2020 o 00:40, Joe Monk pisze: Radoslaw, He is asking about shareoption (4 x) not (x 4) aka cross-region sharing, not cross-system sharing. In VSE, Shareoption(4) allows vsam file sharing among partitions (similar to a z/os address space). VSE manages that automatically, for the u

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-31 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
: Friday, October 30, 2020 4:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** Radoslaw, He is asking about shareoption (4 x) not (x 4) aka cross-region sharing, not cross-system

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread Joe Monk
Radoslaw, He is asking about shareoption (4 x) not (x 4) aka cross-region sharing, not cross-system sharing. In VSE, Shareoption(4) allows vsam file sharing among partitions (similar to a z/os address space). VSE manages that automatically, for the user. Joe On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:22 PM R.

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 30.10.2020 o 23:51, Tony Thigpen pisze: All, I have a z/VSE client that believes it is time to move to z/OS. But, they have one big concern. They have a lot of ShareOption=4 VSAM files. For those that don't know it, ShareOption=4 files on z/VSE "work out of the box" without any need f

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread Joe Monk
"In their case, they use shareoption=4 so that they can update VSAM files from batch Cobol programs while at the same time CICS Cobol programs are also updating the files. They don't want to have to change their programs." How do you plan to make that happen since in usually z/os CICS journals the

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread Mark Jacobs
I believe you're on the right path. VSAM RLS requires a coupling facility for its lock and cache structures, and DFSMStvs is a priced feature of z/OS too. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac.

Re: VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread Graham Harris
Another option: https://ftpdocs.broadcom.com/cadocs/d0/d93e.pdf On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:51, Tony Thigpen wrote: > All, > > I have a z/VSE client that believes it is time to move to z/OS. But, > they have one big concern. They have a lot of ShareOption=4 VSAM files. > > For those that do

VSAM-RLS and DFSMStvs basic questions

2020-10-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
All, I have a z/VSE client that believes it is time to move to z/OS. But, they have one big concern. They have a lot of ShareOption=4 VSAM files. For those that don't know it, ShareOption=4 files on z/VSE "work out of the box" without any need for the application program to perform any enque