ADABAS, Natural and Entire Network are available for Linux for S/390. Conceivably if you have an application (Natural for instance) running on Linux you could access data on OS/390 and conversely if data lives in ADABAS on Linux for S/390, Natural on OS/390 could access it.
On Friday 24 January 2003 04:47 pm, you wrote: > Same question, but we use Adabas not DB2 :) And Looks like we'll only be > getting a 0A1 :( > > At 02:42 PM 10/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >I think this is technically possible. But I don't know if it is > > financially a good idea or technically. We have a new 2066-0A2 (z/800) > > with an IFL (which only runs z/VM & Linux/390). What I was wondering, > > could the DB2 data base itself run on the Linux/390 system, using the > > IFL's CPU resources. The OS/390 side would only have a "client" ability. > > I hope that makes sense. What I want is for a job on the OS/390 side of > > the machine to use a DB2 connection to the Linux/390 side of the machine > > to do the actual data base work. I realize this would not be as efficient > > as doing it locally. So some of my questions: > > > >1) It is technically feasible? > > > >2) It is financially feasible? > > Cost of DB2 on Linux/390 on a z/800 with 1 IFL. > > Cost of the "client" portion of DB2 on OS/390. Does this exist > >separately from DB2 itself? > > > >3) How well will it perform? E.g. "If you do it that way, you'll only get > >??% of the throughput that you would natively." > > > >4) Can the "client" on OS/390 do the data base backups for the DB2 on the > >Linux/390 side? This is so that we could use our 3490E tapes and our > > OS/390 tape management system. > > > >5) If #4 is NO, then would it be feasible to backup the DB2 tables to > >Linux/390 DASD, perhaps "tar" the output, then "ftp" it to the OS/390 > >system? What about dedicating a Linux/390 DASD partition(s) to this > > function and backing that up using OS/390 (which is possible, the how to > > is in a RedBook from IBM). > > > >6) Is this so stupid that I should be ashamed that I even asked the > >question? > > > >My problems are: > > > >1) CPU required to run DB2 on the OS/390 system - that system is very CPU > >constrainted and is likely to be even on the new machine. > > > >2) The actual money to get DB2 on OS/390. Cost of OS/390 version vs. cost > > of Linux/390 version + OS/390 "client". > > > >-- > >John McKown > >Senior Technical Specialist > >UICI Insurance Center > >Applications & Solutions Team > >+1.817.255.3225 > > Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] > System Programmer (509) 335-7359 > Information Technology > Washington State University > Pullman, WA 99164-1222 -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, A Division of DSG Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. April 25-29, 2003 For details see http://www.wavv.org
