Rex, You can take that classic approach of capturing VSAM updates, pushing the data elsewhere, and then running analytics/reporting or whatever else you're doing. IBM InfoSphere Classic Change Data Capture for z/OS (5655-IM5), as a notable example, would help you do that.
However, we're all learning (rapidly!) that that approach is often not a terrific solution pattern for a variety of reasons. It's usually better to bring the analytics/reporting to the data rather than the other way around for reasons of security, real-time insight, performance, and cost effectiveness. You can bring the analytics to the data using, as a notable example, IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (5655-OD1) featuring Apache Spark, perhaps in a federated Spark implementation. IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS (5698-DVM) might also be part of the picture, separately or in combination with IODA-Z. And the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) can also be quite compelling. Yes, IDAA supports more than Db2 data. VSAM and IMS data can also be part of the IDAA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
