Creating special resources

This chapter explains special resources, and shows you how to create and use them. There are three types of resources:
Special resources
These resources are the most flexible. Create them using the panel that is described in this chapter.
Workstation fixed resources
These resources, called by default R1 and R2, are owned by one workstation only. A common use is for tape pools, but you cannot share these between workstations, so you might have problems if a computer workstation and a started task workstation share the same tape drives. Specify them using the workstation panel.
Parallel servers
These resources represent the number of operations that can be simultaneously started on computer workstations running the z/OS® operating system. Specify them using the workstation panel.