Re: S/36 MRT programs (some questions)

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Marc,

At 08:46 PM 1/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm looking at changing our MRT programs to be SRT programs and I have some
>questions (they're running on the AS/400 in the 36 environment):
>
>1) I have removed the display file keywords such as KNUM, WSID, etc.   I've
>also
>removed the REL workstation opcode.  Is this usually sufficient?
>
>2) I'm trying to understand how an MRT program works.  Does it, for every
>cycle,
>process whichever workstation has requested a unit of work?
>
>3) Is there anything to watch out for during this change?

 The main difference to look out for operationally is if the pgm is taking
advantage of "shared variables."  This is potentially any variable that is
*not* specified in KSAVDS data structure.
In a MRT, those shared variables can be access and modified by any job that
is attached to this pgm.

 -mark
 

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