>We have done some tests and found that there is no issue to read >and write HFS files from a CICS transactions, using the C library >functions for reading and writing files.
I'm by far anything else than a CICS expert, but I seem to remember that CICS transaction must not go into a wait, be it deliberately or as the result of calling a non-CICS service. I think nowadays there is a special queue to put transactions that do incur waits. >As a named pipe is just another file, it should work. A named pipe is different from a standard file in that both ends my become blocked upon a read or write, resp. The reader if there is insufficient data in the pipe, i.e. the reader is faster reading from the pipe than the writer can write into it. The writer if the pipe becomes "full", i.e. the writer is faster in writing to the pipe than the reader can read from it. I'm not saying that to be an inhibitor but this fact has to be taken into account. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
