Hello, we (suddenly) feel the need to give our large insurance math package, which is written in C, to a fellow company, so that they can use it, too.
The problem is: the math package needs to do fopen to get access to some large (kind of) database files, where it gets its calculation base informations from. Now we are told, that doing fopen below CICS is a problem. We are no CICS wizards, because we are an IMS shop - and we are using other techniques in "our" mainframe environment to do the same thing (a table system using dataspaces, or DB2), but these techniques are not present in the fellow companies environment, so we tried the fopen solution in the first turn. We also could put all the information in a very large static array, but this would be many megabytes, and this doesn't seem very reasonable to us. My CICS experience dates back to mid 90s. Could some CICS experts out there briefly outline some kind of solution, which might not involve too much changes on our side and not too much configuration effort on the CICS side? VSAM? DB2? Communication with another address space, which holds the data? Kind regards Bernd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
