Sorry to the OP, I don't have any answer to your original, but interesting question. Perhaps I should be glad not having to deal with that, but ... ;-)
ITschak Mugzach wrote: >I agree that a single copy of data is more secure, however, there are many >applications that are considered far too costly on the mainframe. Indeed. I know of 5+ different mainframe datacentres countrywide which merged into ONE datacentre. All to save on costs. Rand - dollar exchange rates are too high for us in sunny South Africa. That was a good idea to save costs in buildings, electricity, license fees and costs to maintain hardware. Staff were redeployed on other places. About mainframe applications - some expensive applications are called 'sunset applications' ready to be dropped asap. Some applications were already dropped, simply because they are too expensive and easy to replace. David Crayford wrote: >The OP stated that he was using Rocket Software's BlueZone FTP, which is >secure and effecient. I agreed 100% with David. Rocket's competitors won't like that one bit. That is too bad - too sad. Timothy Sipples wrote: >So here's the question of the decade: what is the "damn good reason" to dump >[an entire System of Record] and copy it to [a PC]? If there is a damn good >reason, OK, march on. Is there? Yes, there are many reasons. I will not list them here. But one reason is to dump them to a midrange machine, not to a PC, usually to merge these data into other database system for further processing. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
