> Is it can be useful to develop in the PC, api for DB2? > > The API will use my MFNetDisk 3390 data and the response time will be very >very good from PC or any open systems platform?
This would be *very* useful if 1. It could be done without using the mainframe. 2. It supported JDBC & ODBC APIs. 3. It cost significantly less than current drivers. JDBC/ODBC access to z/os DB2 works well, but it's expensive (relative term). The cost for drivers, whether DB2 Connect or another vendor, is enormous. I have web servers, data warehousing, windows server apps and desktop clients all accessing DB2 data. If I want to add a CPU to webapp server, the driver upgrage fee is more than the cost of the entire server. Secondly, z/os CPU cycles are perceived as expensive. Offloading query processing to a windows box is desirable. In a small shop such as mine, it's much easier to fund a Windows server than a ZIIP. I've even taken to shadowing some DB2 tables to SQL Server tables for use in queries. -Rob Wunderlich ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
