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From: jlister@slhisc.uucp (John Lister)
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Subject: Re: Can One API Support Both TCP/IP and LU 6.2?
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Date: 22 Oct 90 17:28:20 GMT
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Interesting thought.  The answer seems to be that you could implement
something on top of RPC that would have similar functionality to LU6.2 for
particular applications.  Although IBM has been pushing LU6.2 as a commun-
ications panacea, in actuality, most implementations use it for transaction
processing, and the orientation is definitely towards Logical Units of Work
and the questions of atomicity that Distributed Transaction Processing raise.

I have been wondering about starting a project to look at writing an RPC 
interface for CICS Distributed Transaction Processing for some time but 
haven't actually done anything about it.  Is there anyone out there who has
already got their fingers wet?

John Lister.