Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

What is MFS? is it really a IMS DC or is it something else?

Message Format Service (MFS) is a facility of the IMS Transaction Manager environment and it formats messages - it's part of IMS. Initially passing some information to computers using "terminals" was not device independent. MFS came in existence so that IMS application programs do not deal with device-specific characteristics in input or output messages.

You can also look at this IBM Link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... ro2mfs.htm

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the explanation and link Anuj. It helped.

Glad to help you.