This IBM Redbooks publication describes how DFSMStvs works, how and when you might use it, and what you need to consider in your plans. This book should be of interest to you if you want to understand how you can increase the service hours of a CICS/VSAM system by reducing or eliminating the batch window, or if you want to run multiple concurrent batch jobs updating common VSAM data sets. This book is written for readers who have some knowledge of CICS, VSAM, and VSAM Record Level Sharing, and who wish to understand more about DFSMStvs. The book reviews how existing products work. It introduces DFSMStvs, offering more detail on how it works, how you might migrate to it, and how you can change your applications or write new applications to exploit it. This is a companion volume to the DFSMStvs Application Migration Guide, SG24-6972, which contains practical examples of migrating programs to run in a DFSMStvs environment, and the DFSMStvs Presentation Guide, SG24-6973, which contains an overview presentation of DFSMStvs. |