Setting the Address of the System Resources for an Application

To set the address of shared memory, set the IPCKEY parameter. This parameter is used by the BEA Tuxedo system to allocate application IPC resources such that they may be located easily by new processes joining the application. This key and its variations are used internally to allocate the bulletin board, message queues, and semaphores that must be available to new application processes. In single processor mode, this key names the bulletin board; in multiprocessor mode, this key names the message queue of the DBBL.

Characteristics of the IPCKEY Parameter

The IPCKEY parameter has the following characteristics:

Example Settings

*RESOURCES
IPCKEY 39211