Rajeev, I think we'll need a little more information to answer your question well. What sort of mainframe job is it? Let's start with programming language if you know. (Do you have the source code, or is it code somebody else supplied?) Also, where's it running? Is it a batch job, or a CICS program, or an IMS program, or a DB2 stored procedure, or something else? What operating system? (I guess a lot of people assume z/OS, but it could be any of at least four others.)
And how much data do you think you'll access? How often? Will you only be reading it, or will you also be updating? And do you need "live" data access or would a copy suffice? Any particular security requirements, or is this an "open" database and it "doesn't matter"? Do you have any particular preferences we should know about? I'll assume "lowest (full) cost" is one. :-) There are a lot of options, but knowing those parameters should help narrow down the range of choices. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
