Re: Mainframe access to ORACLE on UNIX

Tony Bravo <tbrav_at_ctp.com> writes:  

>We would like to be able to access a UNIX-based ORACLE RDBMS
>from an IBM mainframe. I know that ORACLE has various
>"Transparent Gateways" but I believe these generally work
>in one direction only (i.e. allowing the UNIX RDBMS to
>access DB2 for example).
>
>Does anyone know if it's possible to write a COBOL program,
>for example, on the mainframe that could access the ORACLE
>RDBMS on the UNIX box via DRDA or some other mechanism.
>
 

You are on the leading edge of the power curve, it seems.....  

There will be a product generally available in the next couple of months called CICS-attach. This Oracle product will allow your CICS applications to attach to an O7 database on a nearby server.  

They are also supposed to come out with an O7 DRDA server functionality, but I have no idea how far out that product is time-wise.  

Good luck,  

Dan Received on Sun Jan 29 1995 - 20:45:59 CET