Month: May 2011

A group is the set of related members defined to XCF by a multisystem application in which members of the group can communicate with other members of the same group. A group can span one or more of the systems in a sysplex and represents a complete logical entity to […]

A member is a specific function (one or more routines) of a multisystem application that is joined to XCF and assigned to a group by the multisystem application. A member concept applies to all authorized routines running in the address space that issued the IXCJOIN macro service. Only for termination […]

An application in a XCF context is a program that has various functions distributed across z/OS systems in a multisystem environment. An application or subsystem might consist of multiple instances, each running on a different system in the same sysplex. Typically, each instance performs certain functions for the application as […]