Alan: I was thinking along the lines of what you suggested. cant suggest as a ISV and developer to customers to use CICS or DB2 as a solution. I personally think its overkill for a system type application which we are..besides we handle sensitive security type data.
Regards, Scott On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > There are LOTS of other potential options here. In no particular order, > conceptually at least: > > 1. CICS TS's containers probably provide what you need, conveniently, > though you might have to "chunk" the data into containers of 2GB (or > smaller) so that 31-bit COBOL can "see" them (and all of them). But you can > have as many chunks as you wish, subject to whatever you've configured for > MEMLIMIT. CICS TS Version 3.2 is most likely the minimum release for these > purposes, though CICS TS 5.1 or higher would be desirable. CICS TS would > manage the 64-bit storage for you, with lots of containers, while also > providing 31-bit pointers to those individual containers as long as they're > not too big. But the point (ahem) is that it's all in memory, so if you've > got the real memory (and MEMLIMIT set accordingly) the containers will all > live there. > > 2. WebSphere MQ for z/OS could also be your "chunker," as another option. > > 3. Or you can "pipe" between programs, for example with BatchPipes. > > 4. DB2 could be the intermediary. That'd work particularly well if you rely > on DB2 to perform part of the work, for example some type of format > conversion. > > "Chunking" or "piping" assume the data can be passed somewhat stream-like. > If you're passing a single scanned image file -- maybe a picture of some > part of the cosmos -- that's, say, 3GB in size, that's probably not > something that's easily "chunkable." But many things are. > > As always, if you think IBM ought to introduce a new feature or function, > let IBM know: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
