Rich,
You are right. I don't have enough experience with DB2 to know if
accessing a remote DB2 would actually be less
expensive overall if the engine were running somewhere else. In
a typical batch job, probably not. I realize that I would still need a
DB2 subsystem on my z/OS system for the remote connection.
Additional workload that could go with it could be all
the DB2 Connect workload coming in from the network as well. It
would be pretty difficult to size that.
Dave
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on DB2...
This might relieve some of the issues on your GP engine, but whatever is
processing the data on the GP side will still be doing the same amount of
work. All that is being offloaded is the DB2 engine processing, which may
or
may not be sizeable (depending upon lots of issues). Doing this over
hipersockets certainly makes the communications part easier/cheaper.
On Thursday 03 April 2003 01:34 pm, you wrote:
> All,
>
> On our traditional mainframe system, we are running a z/800-001 that is
> maxed out on CPU. We are trying to figure out ways to relieve this
> without buying another GP engine, and pay the big software costs.
>
> What I'm wondering is would it be possible, and if so, how smart would
> it be to try and move our DB2 workload to a Linux/390 server, and then
> have all the "traditional" mainframe apps access it remotely? Is this
> a path worth looking at?
>
> The reason I ask, is that and IFL bundled with z/VM is pretty cheap, and
> and I could utilize hipersockets.
>
> Waddya all think?
>
> Dave
>
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> Dave Jousma
> Lead Systems Administrator - Information Technology
> Spartan Stores, Inc.
> PO Box 8700
> Grand Rapids, MI 49518
> (616) 878-2883
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