Excellent, thanks for the answer.
I will share this possibilities with my client and get back to you in case
we move forward.
Best,
Sebastián.
2017-12-11 5:20 GMT-03:00 Christian Mueller <
[email protected]>:
> Hi Sebastian
>
> I can see two possibilities
>
> First, I can create a paper containing advantages and disadvantages. This
> could be a base for your decision process. I think one day of work should
> be sufficient.
>
> Second, I could evaluate your current DB2 version (except you are running
> on Z/VM) against the current plugin. It is also possible to assist you in
> case of DB2 updates and adapt the Java code. This scenario would require a
> support contract.
>
> Cheers
> Christian
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 3:06 AM, Sebastián Grattarola <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian, thanks for your reply.
>>
>> I will provide this info to my client and discuss with them what they
>> want to do.
>>
>> As they already have all their software on DB2, they wanted to keep
>> everything on the same dbms to keep maintenance tasks as low as possible.
>> We started with postgres as a GIS prototype, but now they want to move
>> forward with the project, so migrating to DB2 is an option.
>>
>> Can you give more details on what the commercial support may include? I
>> need to evaluate the alternatives in case that a new version of DB2 is
>> released in the future that is not supported by the current version of the
>> extension.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>> Best,
>> Sebastián.
>>
>> 2017-12-09 4:57 GMT-03:00 Christian Mueller <
>> [email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Short answer:
>>>
>>> I would not recommend to migrate to DB2 Spatial Extender.
>>>
>>> Longer answer:
>>>
>>> I have been working with DB2 SE for about ten years. Currently I am
>>> migrating all projects of my customer to PostGis and I am quite happy.
>>> The DB2 extension itself was written by myself and I am the module
>>> maintainer but I will not invest time and resources into further
>>> development.
>>> There is another guy (David Adler) working on the module sparely.
>>>
>>> I think you can use any DB2 since version 10 for evaluation.
>>>
>>> I can offer you commercial support if you need an evaluation paper whit
>>> a lot of facts.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Sebastián Grattarola <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm evaluating the migration of a postgis/postgres database to a DB2
>>>> spatial db. I know there is an extension
>>>> <http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/data/database/db2.html> available
>>>> for making the connections from Geoserver to the DB2 datasources.
>>>>
>>>> I've been looking for an up-to-date page or documentation where I can
>>>> find the supported versions of DB2 or the DB2 drivers
>>>> <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21363866> for each
>>>> gt-jdbc-db2
>>>> <http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/library/jdbc/db2.html> release
>>>> (the library behind the extension AFAIK), but I haven't been able to find
>>>> any info about this.
>>>>
>>>> In the end, what I need to know is the versions of DB2 supported by the
>>>> extension. Any help or tip will be appreciated.
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> Sebastián.
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Sebastián Grattarola
>>
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