System Specifications

Hardware

IBM mainframe: z10 EC or higher processor

Operating System

z/OS running 64-bit hardware which supports the following:

  • General-Instructions-Extension Facility (GIEF)
  • Long-Displacement Facility
  • Extended-Immediate Facility
  • Execute-Extensions Facility

Compatible environments

TSO/ISPF, CICS TS, IMS TM, DB2 SPAS

Accessible From

All common languages using standard IBM protocol, including: C, C++, COBOL, PL/1, Assembler, Fortran

Not Supported

  • 64-bit applications
  • IBM’s use of the XPLINK interface in all higher level 31-bit or 64-bit applications

Library Requirements

The space required for a tableBASE library with default block size 3120 is approximately the sum of:

  • eight blocks
  • one block for every 20 tables
  • one block for each generation of each table
  • enough space for each table’s data, including the number of rows multiplied by row size (in bytes), plus the index size (8 bytes for every row)
  • free space equivalent to the largest table