John, Me either , I would have thought the vendor had the tools. Sounds like they want u to pay to have it done.
Regards, Scott ford Sent from my iPad On Jan 1, 2012, at 9:01 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 12:23 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >> Brian, >> Yep the India support get back to you doesn't set well with me as a vendor. >> We get back to our customers ASAP. Also want to add, don't expect the >> Support to know anything. Been on the phone with a certain ISP and had >> to tell them how to shoot the problem. >> >> Regards, >> Scott >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > > Not just India, per se. It's the vendor, regardless of country. > > We in z/OS support, for some reason, are tasked with a distributed > application, which replaced a z/OS application. It runs on a Tomcat > server on Linux, and a Windows server. It uses Oracle as some sort of > "index" for data files kept on a NAS box. They also support the > application using MS SQL. We want to convert from Tomcat/Linux with > Oracle to Tomcat/Windows with MS SQL (I don't know why). The vendor DOES > NOT KNOW HOW TO DO THIS! They are asking us for things like the Oracle > schema ( or maybe its the data: 3 Terabytes). WHAT??? It's __their__ > schema. They don't know how to copy the data in the Oracle database into > an MS SQL database. I'm not really in this discussion, so maybe I'm > missing something. And don't intend to try getting into, because our > DBAs are now outsourced. I really don't want to bother with that > headache of talking to the US reps of a Dutch company to tell an > outsourced DBA what needs to be done. Oh, my. I'm would be homicidal in > about 5 minutes. I don't suffer fools gladly. > > > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
