February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
76 pages
2h 22m
English
book
IBM CICS and the Coupling Facility: Beyond the Basics
by Arndt Eade, Randy Frerking, Rich Jackson, Kellie Mathis
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VSAM record-level sharing
Record-level sharing (RLS) is a Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) function that was first provided by DFSMS z/OS V1.3 and that is used by IBM CICS Transaction Server (CICS TS) for z/OS V1.1 and higher. VSAM data sets are opened in RLS mode, which allows them to be shared (with full update capability) among applications that are running in multiple CICS regions within a sysplex.
In Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS) z/OS V1.3, support was implemented for a new data sharing subsystem, SMSVSAM, which runs ...