Re: yipeee!

Would be a lot easier to migrate to DB2 AIX than to O. Also DB2 has a much better parallel (shared nothing) architecture.

Mike wrote:

>Just recieved a 'thought experiment' assignment from my boss.
>Does it make sense, and how would it be accomplised, to move
>the databases from the mainframe (small VSE 390?) to AIX?
>I mentioned that we should then look at possible programs from
>IBM to convert the mainframe database (VSAM?) files into DB2/AIX,
>or Oracle databases. And that I thought Oracle had some facility
>such that we could cluster and load-balance two+ nodes running
>something like Parallel Oracle so that should a node need booting
>or modifying off-line the application is still running (at
>reduced capacity) for the users.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Mike
>
>

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Anton Versteeg
IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
IBM Netherlands