Re: VSAM Data Access (and SYSB-II)

2014-02-08 Thread Timothy Sipples
John McKown writes: But it does not refute the z/OS is hard to get data out of thoughts because it induces the see, if data access on z/OS were easy, we'd have access to _current_ data and not need to be doing all this data duplication into an easy to access system like MS SQL Server. As I

Re: VSAM Data Access (and SYSB-II)

2014-02-07 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Also curious about the It also gives our end users the idea that z/OS is incapable of easy to use data access remark, John. If you're a keen or semi-keen observer of the IT world, relational databases are extremely

Re: VSAM Data Access (and SYSB-II)

2014-02-07 Thread Mike Schwab
How about a weekly (or daily) scheduled download for the users to do ad hoc queries? On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:25 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Also curious about the It also gives our end users the

Re: VSAM Data Access (and SYSB-II)

2014-02-07 Thread John McKown
We do things like that. But it does not refute the z/OS is hard to get data out of thoughts because it induces the see, if data access on z/OS were easy, we'd have access to _current_ data and not need to be doing all this data duplication into an easy to access system like MS SQL Server.

VSAM Data Access (and SYSB-II)

2014-02-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
Also curious about the It also gives our end users the idea that z/OS is incapable of easy to use data access remark, John. If you're a keen or semi-keen observer of the IT world, relational databases are extremely popular and continuing to be popular, but non-relational databases (and data