Depends a lot on the size of things as well. You may wind up spending a large chunk of change for L/390 - UDB too.
At one point in time we were specing out doing a 1TB data warehouse using UDB on linux/390. The numbers we were told were from IBM Toronto to use were: "Depending on the type of processors and workload/utilization, we recommend 1-2 dedicated CPUs and 1-2 GBs of memory for each 150GB of raw data." (I believe that was under UDB 7.x so things might be better under 8.1 ymmv ) ----------------------------------- Jeremy Warren Sr. Systems Programmer KB Toy Stores mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@kbtoys.com Dave Jousma <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stores.com> cc: Sent by: Linux on Subject: [LINUX-390] Thoughts on DB2... 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 04/03/2003 02:34 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port 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 __________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Lead Systems Administrator - Information Technology Spartan Stores, Inc. PO Box 8700 Grand Rapids, MI 49518 (616) 878-2883 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
