<s>
On	O
IBM	B-Device
mainframes	I-Device
,	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
is	O
a	O
batch	B-General_Concept
job	I-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
utility	O
which	O
runs	O
under	O
the	O
MVS/ESA	O
operating	O
system	O
and	O
later	O
versionsOS/390	O
and	O
z/OS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
traditional	O
processing	O
,	O
if	O
data	O
records	O
are	O
written	O
out	O
to	O
sequential	O
(	O
QSAM	B-Application
and	O
BSAM	B-Application
)	O
data	B-Application
set	I-Application
on	O
disk	O
or	O
tape	O
,	O
they	O
cannot	O
be	O
read	O
concurrently	O
by	O
another	O
job	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
an	O
installation	O
can	O
arrange	O
for	O
the	O
data	O
to	O
be	O
"	O
piped	O
"	O
between	O
the	O
two	O
jobs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BatchPipes	B-Application
maintains	O
a	O
short	O
queue	O
of	O
records	O
being	O
passed	O
between	O
the	O
writer	O
and	O
the	O
reader	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
sort	B-Application
is	O
a	O
special	O
case	O
:	O
all	O
the	O
input	O
records	O
must	O
be	O
read	O
before	O
the	O
first	O
output	O
record	O
can	O
be	O
written	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hence	O
there	O
can	O
be	O
no	O
overlap	O
between	O
the	O
input	O
and	O
output	O
phases	O
of	O
a	O
sort	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Similarly	O
,	O
the	O
output	O
phase	O
of	O
sort	B-Application
can	O
be	O
overlapped	O
with	O
a	O
downstream	O
job	O
that	O
reads	O
the	O
sorted	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
traditional	O
batch	O
streams	O
often	O
contain	O
such	O
jobs	O
,	O
this	O
kind	O
of	O
processing	O
can	O
be	O
introduced	O
using	O
,	O
for	O
example	O
IBM	O
's	O
DFSORT	B-Application
product	O
or	O
BatchPipeWorks	O
(	O
part	O
of	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Furthermore	O
,	O
if	O
any	O
job	O
in	O
the	O
pipeline	B-Operating_System
fails	O
,	O
recovery	O
actions	O
will	O
be	O
wider	O
than	O
just	O
recovering	O
this	O
single	O
job	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
these	O
reasons	O
some	O
installations	O
have	O
found	O
it	O
difficult	O
to	O
implement	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
BatchPipes	B-Application
can	O
use	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
mainframe	I-Device
Coupling	B-Device
Facility	I-Device
to	O
pipe	O
data	O
between	O
different	O
members	O
of	O
a	O
Parallel	B-Operating_System
Sysplex	I-Operating_System
,	O
using	O
the	O
BatchPipePlex	O
facility	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BatchPipes	B-Application
includes	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
pipeline	B-Operating_System
stages	O
based	O
on	O
IBM	O
's	O
CMS	B-Operating_System
Pipelines	I-Operating_System
product	O
developed	O
for	O
the	O
VM/ESA	B-Application
operating	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
stages	O
provide	O
additional	O
processing	O
,	O
without	O
the	O
need	O
for	O
additional	O
batch	B-General_Concept
jobs	I-General_Concept
in	O
the	O
pipeline	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
BatchPipes	B-Application
Version	O
1	O
was	O
developed	O
in	O
the	O
late	O
1980s	O
and	O
early	O
1990s	O
simply	O
as	O
a	O
technique	O
to	O
speed	O
up	O
MVS/ESA	O
batch	B-General_Concept
processing	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1997	O
the	O
functionality	O
of	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
was	O
integrated	O
into	O
a	O
larger	O
IBM	O
product	O
-	O
SmartBatch	O
(	O
which	O
incorporated	O
two	O
BMC	O
Corporation	O
product	O
features	O
:	O
DataAccelerator	O
and	O
BatchAccelerator	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
APT	O
International	O
,	O
based	O
in	O
Monaco	B-Application
,	O
produced	O
a	O
competitive	O
product	O
trademarked	O
as	O
WARP	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
few	O
months	O
after	O
the	O
launch	O
of	O
this	O
product	O
,	O
IBM	O
renamed	O
their	O
OS/2	B-Application
product	O
OS/2	B-Application
Warp	O
4	O
,	O
conflicting	O
with	O
the	O
marketing	O
of	O
the	O
performance	O
product	O
that	O
was	O
the	O
only	O
competitor	O
to	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Subsequently	O
,	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
Version	O
2	O
was	O
released	O
,	O
incorporating	O
BatchPipes	B-Application
Version	O
1	O
and	O
some	O
additional	O
features	O
from	O
SmartBatch	O
:	O
BatchPipePlex	O
and	O
BatchPipeWorks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BatchPipes	B-Application
Version	O
2	O
is	O
still	O
a	O
marketed	O
IBM	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
