We do things like that. But it does not refute the "z/OS is hard to get data out of" thoughts because it induces the "see, if data access on z/OS were easy, we'd have access to _current_ data and not need to be doing all this data duplication into an easy to access system like MS SQL Server".
Actually we do captures of changes to some VSAM data sets by using the CICS journals and a CA product called FileSave. These are used to propagate changes made to selected VSAM master files to a Windows systems which uses the data to update the MS SQL Server databases on a nightly basis. Unloading and ftping our history data bases would simply take too long. It is a few 100 gigabytes of VSAM resident data. On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > How about a weekly (or daily) scheduled download for the users to do > ad hoc queries? > > -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
