For video on demand databases are too slow. You would use a streaming server, for which I don't know any available for System z OS except VM Stairs. In addition, a streaming server would serve a stream, so you need a small buffer (e.g. 128MB) and fast DASD for 1000 Users.
For the 64Bit discussion, as long as LE cannot mix 64Bit and 31Bit modules, what is the benefit? -----Original Message----- From: Schneiderwent, Craig - DOT <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 3:36 pm Subject: Re: AIX gets 64 bit COBOL but still none for Z/os ... > Is there any reason to have 64-bit COBOL on z/OS ? Parsing or generating _really_ _big_ XML data streams? In a CICS Web Services provider scenario, one could posit a very large 01 level, only some of which gets filled in for any one request... 01 Work-Areas. 05 Some-Table-Nb PIC 9(008) COMP-5. 05 Some-Other-Table-Nb PIC 9(008) COMP-5. 05 Marks-Nb PIC 9(008) COMP-5. 01 Response. 05 Personal-Info. 10 Given-Name PIC N(80) USAGE NATIONAL. 10 Family-Name PIC N(80) USAGE NATIONAL. 05 Some-Table Occurs 0 To 200 Depending Some-Table-Nb. 10 Photo-Base-64-JPEG PIC X(20480). 10 Fingerprint-base-64-JPEG PIC X(40960). 10 Scars-Marks-Tattoos Occurs 0 To 100 Depending Marks-Nb PIC X(20480). 05 Some-Other-Table Occurs 0 To 10 Depending Some-Other-Table-Nb. 10 MPEG4-encoded-somehow PIC X(1024000). 05 [more big-ish data here] But I'm just making this up, AFAIK we don't have anything like this. One could also posit a video rental business that keeps the videos in DB2 BLOBs and serves them via CICS Web Services COBOL applications. But I don't know of any such business. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
