Re: Trying to decide whether to support DB2 or Oracle

In article <3AF86FE4.E3298016_at_ca.ibm.com>, Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> writes
>It's definitely on our to-do list. We're examining the choices we'd have to
>make to
>deliver this in a future release. We won't deliver this as quickly we we
>delivered
>Sequence support (i.e. this is bigger than the next fixpak).
>

   I'm the owner of the Informix FAQ and a general Informix guru of    9 years experience.

• Who holds the list of new features who we of the user group are requesting?
• Where is the FAQ?
• Where are the manuals for DB2? The informix ones are at www.informix.com/answers but IBM's Website seems confusing.
• Can someone give an overview of the architecture of DB2. IBM's Website is all sales talk about B2B and enhancing the enterprise. Is DB2 multithreaded/multi process, how is transaction logging handled, what is the process used to recover from crashes? I want a technical architecture document. What is the difference between plain DB2 and this EE thingy?
• I've tried downloading the free trial version of DB2 from IBM's Web site but cannot get gozilla (from gozilla.com) to handle the download. Either I get
  1. Standard Save/Open dialog - like I'm going to assume a 150Mb download will succeed first time
  2. Some downloads and be resuming but only using this Distribution applet thingy - like I'm going install more software and run unknown applets and install some kind of unknown plugin.. who do I complain to ??

         I want to be able to a) resume ALL downloads not just some,
         b) use gozilla/getright/whatever else I currently use to handle
         the download.


     Most questions later...

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David Williams