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Figure 7-5 IMS Version 8 in Parallel Sysplex
7.3 Base Primitive Environment (BPE)
Base Primitive Environment (BPE) is a programming environment for developing new IMS
component address spaces. It is a common system service base, upon which many other
IMS components are built. Common Queue Server (CQS) is an example of this, and more
and more IMS components are written to utilize the services provided by the BPE. A version
of BPE has been shipped with IMS since IMS 5.1. For IMS Version 8, the BPE version
shipped and required is 1.4. BPE 1.4 supports the Common Queue Server (CQS) and the
new Common ...
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