On Wednesday, 08/08/2012 at 03:22 EDT, David Boyes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm all for that since VSAM for z/VM has been removed from marketing. > > We've looked at doing that (building an interface shim from the CMS VSAM API to > one or more of the Linux DBMS servers) as well as a potential similar shim for > the DB2/VM (SQL/DS VM) interfaces. It's not impossible, but it's not trivial > either. At least for a while, CA had a product that did something like this, > but I think it's no longer available.
I just wish that DB2/VM had continued to support the Alternate VSAM Emulator support in CMS, just as SQL/DS had done. It allowed DB2 to replace VSAM. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
