The BetterGener utility program offers improved performance over IEBGENER in straight copy tasks and is transparent to users when it is installed with MFX. Implementing BetterGener will provide significant savings in system resources such as elapsed time, CPU time, and channel utilization through improved I/O handling. Once BetterGener is activated, eligible IEBGENER job streams are automatically processed by MFX. There is no need to replace working IEBGENER job streams with explicit requests for MFX’s more efficient copying. BetterGener’s SYNCGENR module will intercept calls to IEBGENER and determine whether the particular copy application should be processed by MFX. In situations supported by MFX, SYNCGENR will link to the sort, generating the environment of a program-initiated sort execution. In situations not supported by MFX, SYNCGENR will transfer control to IEBGENER.
