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The tableBASE CICS TS Interface makes the powerful data-management capabilities of tableBASE available to CICS online applications. Data Kinetics supports the tableBASE CICS TS Interface on all IBM-supported releases of CICS TS running under z/OS.
The tableBASE CICS TS Interface gives you immediate performance benefits right up front -- better transaction response time and increased CICS throughput, due to a dramatically shortened path length when accessing table data. It contains many internal functional efficiencies that significantly reduce system overhead, and some external ones as well. For example, tableBASE tables do not require JCL to start up and run -- a large insurance company requiring a few thousand tables for its daily operations found this a welcome feature for reducing the complexity and elapsed time requirements of its daily system scheduling protocol.
tableBASE can also enhance the multithreading capabilities of your CICS applications, enabling you to recapture wasted CPU cycles and further increase transaction throughput. With tableBASE CICS TS Interface all CICS tasks can share designated tables in real time, while unshared ”private“ tables can be reserved for use within an application region.
The tableBASE CICS TS Interface also comes with a command processor, which can be used
- to show how a command will behave,
- to submit a series of commands, and
- to verify the status and contents of a table.
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