Cross Platform Question

From: Ian Martin <hambro_at_hambro.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/08/29
Message-ID: <426vdBAO5uB0EwlG@hambro.demon.co.uk>#1/1

Does anyone reading this newsgroup have experience of initiating Mainframe procedures from an Oracle application on NT?

We are currently developing an Oracle Database on Windows NT 4.0 and will be developing applications using Designer/Developer 2K, all of which is new to us. We have a requirement to trigger updates to CICS/VSAM files on an IBM Mainframe from these applications. The Mainframe updates do not necessarily have to be synchronised with Database updates, but any failures must be notified to the user via the Oracle applications.

The most obvious answer seems to be using messaging software such as MQSeries (or MSMQ when developed?) but I have no idea as to whether these can be initiated from PL/SQL.

Any experiences, views or comments would be gratefully received!

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Ian Martin

Received on Fri Aug 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT