The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
IBMsysProg wrote: > From a software architecture standpoint, Multi Regions, Independent > locking (IRLM), Automated Recovery (DBRC), and DASD Logging became the > foundations of IBMs second relational data base system and its first > SQL based system called at its introduction DB2. IBMs first > relational database system pre dated wide use of DASD and long > historys could be written about it alone ... "Bill of Material > Program called at various times BOMP T-BOMP for TAPE BOMP and D-BOMP > for DISK BOMP. BOMP was probably used more for applications like > payroll than manufacturing. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#47 Capacity and Relational Database http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database lots of postings about sql/relational database system/r done at sjr/bldg.28 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#systemr including mentioning doing work on system/r and handling technology transfer of system/r from sjr to endicott for sql/ds. another source of a lot of old archeological references: http://www.mcjones.org/System_R now system/r was all done in vm370 virtual machines ... technology out of the science center ... 4th flr, 545 tech sq http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech on the 5th flr, 545 tech sq was multics ... which had done an even earlier relational implementation. recent posting (in comp.databases.theory) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#1 Designing database tables for performance? with multics MRDS reference: http://www.multicians.org/mgm.html#MRDS http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/mrds.html now the seminal work on relational was done by Codd at SJR, A relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, ACM, v13n6, june 1970 http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html wiki reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_F._Codd minor pt in the above reference ... sjr was in bldg. 28 on the san jose plant site, the almaden facility wasn't built until the mid-80s. now one of the people in the meeting referenced here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#15 mentioned that he had handled a lot of technology transfer from sql/ds & endicott back to STL for DB2 (even tho bldg. 28 and bldg. 90 are only about ten miles apart ... i would even periodically do the commute on my bike). for lots of topic drift ... two of the other people in that same meeting ... were later at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the commerce server and we were called in to consult on being able to do payment transactions on their server ... misc. collected postings mentioning putting together payment transaction infrastructure for what is now frequently referred to as electronic commerce http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
