Re: Oracle-to-IDMS Access

Richard,

Have a look at the Oracle Transparent Gateway for EDA/SQL. It provides read/write access to a bunch of mainframe datastores, including VSAM, IDMS and Model 204. By using database links and synonyms your programmers don't even have to know that the data is on the mainframe. You can do distributed queries and distributed transactions with Two Phase Commit.

If you need to initiate mainframe transactions (CICS for instance) from a Forms program, then you can use the Procedural Gateway for APPC.

Check out http://www.oracle.com/gateways/html

Tim

Richard A. Valdez wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering who out there is in the process of (or has completed)
> converting systems from IDMS to Oracle databases. I am particularly
> interested in how you are accessing and updating data on your IDMS
> database from Oracle Forms.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Richard A. Valdez
> rvaldez_at_unm.edu
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 00:00:00 CST