In <[email protected]>, on
02/15/2012
   at 04:04 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> said:

>We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a
>while about the differences between how CICS works and how IMS TM
>works.

CICS was designed to run multiple transactions concurrently in a
single region; IMS was designed to run each transaction in a separate
region. The consequence is that IMS protects transactions against each
other but has higher overhead.
 
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