RE: ORACLE on mainframe compare to UNIX /linux server?

From: Nelson, Allan <anelson_at_miswaco.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:30:35 -0500
Message-ID: <7E0DB3A126BA9146AC30744E2B7E42451118F5@midhouhqxch01.net.smith.com>

I have only a little bit of experience in this world, but in the hope that it is helpful... compatibility at the functional level is good. The big problems were how disks are organized in the MF world and resource control through JCL. There are a lot of differences between Unix and MVS or VM or whatever. Read the concepts manual for the OS you intend to implement on.

Be prepared to benchmark a lot. You will, IMO, almost inevitably carry assumptions over from UNIX that don't apply on the mainframe. I never did quite figure out how the semaphore/shared memory model in UNIX mapped to the mainframe.

Some cons:

Oracle Support Analysts will have little or no imformation about platform specific issues.
New Oracle releases on this platform lag other platforms. You are in an environment where most of the significant systems people have died, retired, or retrained.

A pro:
If you have enough money, you can buy one really, really big box.

I know this is very generic commentary, but you did not provide much in the way of detail.

Allan
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We are study ORACLE on mainframe and need your suggestion. We already use ORACLE on LINUX/UNIX for sevceral years and want to know CON and PRO while move to mainframe.

Any one have experience on it=3F

Thanks.

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