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Using Transactional VSAM to let CICS and batch access VSAM files concurrently

Organizations face a growing need for CICS to be online more to accommodate longer hours of service, new business opportunities, and more time zones. Yet, they still have to figure out how to find time for batch to update the same VSAM files that CICS needs. This conflict for time and control has led companies to look at various solutions so they can have CICS available and serving the business for as many hours as possible each day.