There is no SRB type facility in VSE. Look into using the XPCC facility for communicating data between address spaces.
It also does not support a System LX for your PC routine though it does support PC-ss. I generally use XPCC in VSE instead of PC routines if you need to provide cross-partition data movement. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your applications with z/Ware V2 Voice: 214-800-8900 X#5562 -- This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If misdirected, please notify us by telephone and confirm that it has been deleted from your system and any copies destroyed. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it. We use reasonable measures to virus scan all E-mails leaving illustro but no warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should ensure you have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Austin Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: port from z/OS to z/VSE As VSE has been dying since I was an operator 30 years ago I have not much bothered with it, but now I've been asked to 'port' some MVS routines to VSE. I'm investigating porting a z/OS server address space to z/VSE. The server address space creates PC-ss routines that client address spaces call. The client call causes the server to schedule an SRB in the client address space which in turn calls the server via a PC-ss to copy data from the server to the client. I know that a number of z/OS services and control blocks can be emulated, ETCON, TCB, etc, but what I'm missing is the VSE equivalent of an SRB. Under VSE is it possible to create a new workunit in another address space? Is there a VSE equivalent of an SRB? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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