Fermat, It sounds like you're going to need to do some customer education, perhaps gently. Ask the appropriate people for help if you need it. Fix their underlying problems. Help solve your customer's true business pains.
Just to give you yet another data point, I recall hearing about a company in the Midwestern United States that asked for an estimate if they did the reverse: took their database off the mainframe (DB2) and moved it to Oracle. (The principle is the same, though.) Which you can do -- many things are technically possible, given enough time and money thrown at the problem. (Though with a decrease in quality of service delivery of course.) By the way, Oracle just reported good corporate financial results largely as a result of higher support contract payments. Anyway, there was a careful technical study undertaken to determine the impacts. The study determined that, yes, this could be done, and yes, DB2 CPU would indeed fall to zero. (If you remove all DB2, there's no DB2 CPU consumption.) Unfortunately z/OS and CICS CPU consumption would triple, just by introducing a wire between applications and data in that particular environment. That's even before considering the fact that Oracle certainly is not free to buy and even less free to operate. And, in this particular case, there was no sync/replication between databases, which is yet another potential quagmire. (Replication is perfectly respectable when appropriately used, but replication typically guarantees that any business process spanning both applications/databases becomes a batch-oriented business process -- whether or not the business really requires an online/"real time" process with accurate and current data.) The customer decided their idea was a bad idea, the opposite of their business goals. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / 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
