Re: Oracle, MVS, and IMS

In article <26532_at_uswnvg.uswnvg.com>, mpalme1_at_uswnvg.com (Mark Palmer) wrote:

> We are a two platform environment with IMS on MVS and Oracle on Sequent.
> We would like to put Oracle 7 on MVS to share some data but it appears that
> there is not a way to go between IMS/TM and Oracle. Are there any options
> I am ignoring? Does anyone have some suggestions?
>
> Mark
The way we access IMS data is dump it into DB2 and then use Oracle's SQL*Connect to DB2 gateway product. There is a SQL*Connect to IMS product, but our systems people get very nervous whenever we talk about access IMS directly.

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