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CA-L-Serv Cross-system Sharing

With CA-L-Serv managing the files, you can share VSAM files across systems, even when shared DASD is not available. In this case, CA-L-Serv must exist on each system with the communications server providing cross-system communication.

A single CA-L-Serv, defined as the host, manages the VSAM files, while the other CA-L-Servs are defined as remote, as in the following illustration:

Note: If your site is using one CA-L-Serv on one system, the CA-L-Serv must be defined as local.