Re: Adjusting to DB2

"Mark A" <nobody_at_nowhere.com> wrote:

>
>"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
>news:1130389964.393150_at_yasure...
>> Mark Townsend wrote:
>>
>>> Well - after a little bit of net sleuthing, I think I know a little bit
>>> of Mark's background, and I do believe that he has a great deal of real
>>> world experience with DB2 on the mainframe, at least. So I would think
>>> that some level of professional courtesy is due (and it should be
>>> reciprocal as well, of course).
>>
>> Given my complete trust in your research capabilities ... I will rescind
>> my statement with the caveat that his experience is on mainframe DB2.
>> Not DB2 on *NIX. Not DB2 on AS400. Not DB2 on Windows. And most
>> certainly not anything having to do with Oracle.
>>
>> So how come he doesn't know what instrumentation is? The one decently
>> instrumented DB2 implementation is the mainframe version.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
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>Although I do have many years of experience on DB2 for z/OS (since 1987), I
>am equally knowledgeable about DB2 for LUW (Since 1990 when it was
>originally called OS/2 Database Manager). I am an IBM certified DBA on both
>products. For the past 4 years, I have worked about 90% of my time as a DBA
>on DB2 for LUW, on every supported OS except HP/UX.
>
>I also work some with Oracle 10gR1 (which is why I read this forum), but I
>don't claim to be an expert on that product. I have also completed 2 classed
>on Oracle taught by Oracle Education.
>
>Daniel, on the other hand knows virtually nothing about DB2 for LUW from
>first hand experience. That is true even though he supposedly advices
>clients about the merits of DB2 LUW vs. Oracle. Anyone who has read his
>misguided posts on the DB2 forum knows exactly what I mean.
>
>One can also clearly see what I mean when Daniel refers above to "DB2 on
>*NIX" and "DB2 on Windows" as separate products, when in fact, they are
>identical products (except when referring to drive path names).
>

Gee, then why does IBM list separate Windows and Unix versions( and Solaris and Linux and...) Received on Thu Oct 27 2005 - 13:24:09 CDT