> On 12/19/06, Srini Musunuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At present we have DB2 on Z/OS, collecting information on putting DB2 on
> > Linux zseries. So that our company can save money on Z/OS cpu cycles(or
> > MIPS).
> >
> > On our mainframe we have OMEGAMON,CICS,RACF,TSO and PLATINUM tools are
> > accessing DB2 database. If we do migrate to DB2UDB on LINUX zseries,
> then
> > how does the above tools can communicate to newer DB2UDB.

They won't work the same way.

> > product like DB2 Connect ? was this do able ? any known problems ? I am
> > looking for expertise advice on this.

You will certainly need new versions of the tools, if they work at all.

> > Does still our old COBOL/CICS programs can still acess newer DB2UDB ?

Not without modifications.

> > Do we have to do any special binds ?

See below.

> > How was the DB2UDB performace on Linux z-series ?

Excellent.

> > We are looking for solution that can work seamless solution and no code
> > changes

One option you should investigate is keeping DB/2 on z/OS to maintain the
API interfaces, and moving all the actual data storage over to the UDB
instance and accessing it via DRDA over IP. Since the majority of the
processing resource involved in DB/2 on z/OS is the data storage and
management, moving that part to the IFL and keeping the z/OS API the same
often allows you to reduce the overall size of the z/OS partition, which has
corresponding savings for z/OS, and additional utilities (the effective
model number of the machine goes down, which makes the software and other
products you mentioned LOTS cheaper). That also allows fewer (in some cases,
no) modifications to the COBOL and CICS apps and you keep all your current
tools in place at the same levels; your DBAs will pay for it in learning a
lot -- probably more than they ever wanted to -- about DRDA.

You will probably also need similar tools on the Linux side, but there,
you're starting fresh.

-- db

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