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Resource management
The ability to keep global name and status information about certain IMS resources (in
Version 8, transactions, LTERMs, and users).
Inter-address space communication
The ability to send messages and requests to other IMSplex components, and to receive
state change information about these components.
The Common Service Layer is one of the four layers in the long term IMS architecture, and is
the basis for future IMSplex enhancements.
The intra-IMSplex communication between components are handled by the Structured Call
Interface. For the resource management, a new resource structure can be defined in the
Coupling Facility. Resource Manager uses CQS to manage the resource ...