Re: Coke switches to DB2!!

From: Adam Musch <ahmusch_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:26:14 -0500
Message-ID: <516d05a0910120726j67f3352bg5822919355b0d3d8_at_mail.gmail.com>

It's still an issue -- DB2 for z/OS remains a radically different animal than DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, and Windows).

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody on here work with both Oracle and DB2?
>
> I was wondering, merely for my own information (thankfully nobody has
> ever suggested this), if what Tom Kyte wrote many years ago is still
> applicable today
> (http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:6495007510621886::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1886476148373)?
>
> Specifically where he says:
> "What DB2 do you use on all platforms?  Answer -- none, they have
> different DB2's for different
> architectures. (that report often seems to confuse things in DB2/OS390
> with DB2/UDB -- "features
> they've had for years", that OS390 -- UDB, totally different code
> base, totally different
> architecture."
>
> Has IBM improved this 'initial' flaw, or is this still an issue with DB2?
>
>
> --
> -- Bill Ferguson
> --
> http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>
>
>

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