THe Berkeley db stuff is no where near robust enough to take the place of a mainframe VSAM implementation. We would like to use the Informix C-ISAM, but that is not available for Linux/390. (yet.)
I looked at the FairCom Server and C-TREE stuff, which is very very good, but again, it is not currently available under Linux/390. There is also D-ISAM, which is an implementation of a Vax RMS system. Another very good product indeed. Well, I'll keep on looking around; if anyone comes up with a free, low cost, or open source set of ISAM stuff, let me know please. :) Thanks -Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:47 AM Subject: Re: VSAM or Lightweight Database? > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 12:41, Rich Smrcina wrote: > > I would seriously doubt that there is anything available that will allow > > assembler source compatibility of indexed data access between OS/390 and > > Linux. The access method would undoubtedly be vastly different. > > There are language ISAM libraries around but they tend to be pricy. The > Unix world has traditionally used libdb (db v2,db v3,db v4..) [not to be > confused with IBM DB2]. > > Alan >
