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Effect of Buffer Size on Data Transmission

The size of the transmission buffers can affect the performance of VTAM communication. As you set up the communications server, decide what buffer size is best by considering:

The data size is determined by the client and not by CA-L-Serv. If incoming data is too large to fit in a single transmission buffer, CA-L-Serv breaks it up and stores it in several buffers. CA-L-Serv recombines the data before delivering it to the receiving client.

For example, if a client is transmitting 7 K of data and the transmission buffers are 4 K each, CA-L-Serv breaks up and recombines data as shown here:

Shows 7K of data split into two 4K buffers.

There is overhead involved in breaking up and recombining data. Try to minimize the number of times CA-L-Serv does this by establishing the appropriate buffer size.