Greg Price wrote:
This CICS "smarts" for managing virtual tasks and
not really OS waiting until there was absolutely
nothing else to do meant that CICS apps got
great throughput under an OS which had no
such thing as an SRM timer pop. Under DOS,
(DOS/VS?) once CICS got dispatched it hogged
the CPU until there was no more work left.
Perhaps a CICS "old timer" can say whether
this is true or not... ?
Cheers,
Greg
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My memory, admittedly 40 years on, is that DOS/VS CICS had it own
subtasking, the same as the CICS running on MVS/SP had and only issued a
DOS WAIT when it had no more CICS work to dispatch.
Ken
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