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IMS in the Parallel Sysplex Volume I: Reviewing the IMSplex Technology
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IMS in the Parallel Sysplex Volume I: Reviewing the IMSplex Technology

by Jouko Jantti, Juan Jesœs Iniesta Mart’nez, Knut Kubein, Bill Stillwell, Gary Wicks
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
282 pages
9h 13m
English
IBM Redbooks
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4.2 Fast Path DEDB VSO sharing
The virtual storage option (VSO) was introduced with IMS Version 5 to replace MSDBs. VSO
provides similar benefits to main storage database users, because there is no call related I/O.
Before shared VSO, basic VSO used OS/390 data spaces as its local cache storage area for
DEDB AREA data. There are also a few additional enhancements included with the basic
VSO feature:
򐂰 Insert and delete calls are supported.
򐂰 VSO Fast Path AREAs are supported by DBRC.
򐂰 Standard utilities are now available to the user.
򐂰 VSO allows designs to use the full DEDB hierarchical model.
򐂰 Field level (FLD) calls are supported, so that applications that access MSDB ...
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