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bcdgall · Beginner Joined: 31 May 2007 Posts: 1 Topics: 1

Hi

A customer who is currently running CICS wants to go to 24x7 full time. In addition the customer wants to be able to run their batch cycles which update some of the CICS Vsams. I do not know if any of their online CICS updates the Vsams. There is only one product that I have heard that can do this and it is fairly new -> BrightStor CA-ShareOption

Anybody know if this is possible? or know of any technique or other product?

kolusu · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

bcdgall,

You could go with IBM's Transactional VSAM (TVS) which is based on record-level sharing (RLS), enables VSAM files to be shared between batch and online just like DB2. However, you must go through the exercise of changing your batch processing to include checkpoints and restart recovery. You also have to set up the log streams for the cluster and write or purchase software for dataset recovery.

Check this link for a presentation of TVS

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27009511&aid=1

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expat · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

The implementation of TVS is work for your storage group too, as they will need to make a few SMS changes.
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Earl · Beginner Joined: 09 Jun 2007 Posts: 26 Topics: 1

There is a product called BatchCICS-Connect that allows for full 24x7 CICS support. recently acquired by Document Systems.

Provides ability to write batch COBOL programs and process any thing
CICS. Programs, files, Transactions, TDq, TSQ, etc. 8)

go to www.batchcics.com for more info.

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