On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote:
> There is a true ETL tool component, PowerExchange by Informatica that > allows the actual ETL Tool (PowerCenter) to read IMS and VSAM files as if > they were relational tables. In general I would recommend this, but I > don't have a sense of the "permanence" of the process you are concerned > about. So I don't know that you'd want to invest in such a product for a > short term need. > > > Anyway, you basically feed in a COBOL copybook that describes your file > (or IMS database). PowerExchange then generates one or more table > structures that can be queried by PowerCenter. PowerCenter would use these > queries to actually load the data in to a true relational database. > We have that product. And, once again, I am at a lose because the people who used it on the PC side are gone and nobody knows/wants to learn how to use it. But I'll present it again as a possibility. We have a lot of attitude of "that is mainframe. Don't expect me to help you. Oh, and give me this data in a form that I can use directly, right now." > > > Or something like that. I've only worked on the PowerExchange side, not > the PowerCenter side. > > > There is a PowerExchange STC that runs on z/OS and deals with both the > data mapping and data transmission. No FTP involved. > > > Probably there are other similar tools, but this is the only one I am > personally aware of. > > > Frank > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
