I am of the opinion that DB2 (or Db2) on z/OS should separate the "client" functions from the server functions. They do this on almost all of their other OS platforms, including VSE. (Not sure about DB2 for i.) By doing this one could have DB2 for z/OS run on a single LPAR (as in the current example) and be able to access it from other LPARs having only the client (DRDA) code. One could even use it to access off platform DB2 servers without a requirement for any DB2 for z/OS server instances. This would be ideal for us, because this is how we are set up. We used to be a VSE shop and we didn't want to get DB2 for VSE (server) because its so "back level" compared to other platforms. Instead we purchased only "DB2 Client for VSE", and we had (and have) DB2 (server) running on Intel Linux. So the need to run DB2 "server stuff" on z/OS when we migrated to z/OS is onerous... While I would guess there are few if any other shops using this particular paradigm, apparently there is at least one (!!) who only wants to run DB2 (server) on one LPAR. Does anyone have any insight into the possibility that an RFE to have 'client only' code on z/OS would be accepted? Frank
________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: AW: Re: LPAR to LPAR access >Db2 Data sharing isn't the only way to get 2 Db2 subsystems on different >LPAR's to talk to each other. As long as the 2 LPAR's have some connectivity, >TCP/IP etc. in common, it is possible to use Db2 distributed data facility to >allow the 2 subsystems to communicate. But they do *not* currently have Db2 on both LPARs, I understand. She's looking for options to have Db2 data shipped over to the non-Db2 LPAR. OT: Did IBM marketing morons rebrand DB2 into Db2 to make it easier to type it without errors on smartphone and tablet virtual keyboards? But then, they should have made it IBM z instead of IBM Z ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
