Re: Oracle8 on OS/390

We've been running Oracle under OS/390 for several years. This version of the database is usually a few versions behind the UNIX versions. Since the installed base is much smaller, the available expertise as far as getting in tuning experts, etc, is more rare, and thus more expensive.

Generally, the performance is usually less than what would be achieved with a much cheaper UNIX server. Also, our IBM experts prefer DB2, and our Oracle experts prefer Oracle under UNIX, so there has been a lot of in-house resistance to this as a platform.

So if you're looking for a database other than DB2 to run under MVS its probably a viable option, but if you're looking for a platform upon which to run Oracle, you can do better.

jk

Brad Skiles <bwskiles_at_purdue.edu> wrote in message news:84qi4q$1dn$1_at_mozo.cc.purdue.edu...
> We're looking into the possibility of running Oracle8 on our OS/390. Is
> anyone using this combination? I'd be most appreciative of feedback
> regarding how well this works, problems with Oracle on this platform, and
> whether or not Oracle will support OS/390 in the future.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Brad Skiles,
> Manager, Data/Database Administration
> Management Information, Purdue University
> bwskiles_at_purdue.edu
>
>
Received on Tue Jan 04 2000 - 10:38:20 CST