Chapter 16. Increasing concurrency by exploiting BatchPipes

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Increasing concurrency by exploiting BatchPipes

Note: In this chapter, we refer to BatchPipes/MVS as simply Pipes.

Pipes is a relatively old product, but one which continues to provide useful function, especially for increasing concurrency. Its BatchPipeWorks component also can enable some simplification by replacing self-written code with standard functions.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•Basic function

•Implementation

•New Pipes connectors

•Additional Pipes functions

16.1 Basic function

Consider the common case of a batch ...

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