Now why did I see the email address but not your signature, ignore the
stupid question about who your employer is.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Anton Versteeg" <anton_versteeg_at_nnll.iibbmm.com> wrote in message
news:40211260.6050508_at_nnll.iibbmm.com...
> 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Anton Versteeg
> IBM Certified DB2 Specialist
> IBM Netherlands
>
>
Received on Wed Feb 04 2004 - 09:49:20 CST
