Re: yipeeeee

From: Nicholas Dronen (ndronen_at_io.frii.com)
Date: 02/04/04


Date: 04 Feb 2004 13:57:58 GMT

Mike <mikee@mikee.ath.cx> wrote:
M> Just recieved a 'thought experiment' assignment from my boss.
M> Does it make sense, and how would it be accomplised, to move
M> the databases from the mainframe (small VSE 390?) to AIX?
M> I mentioned that we should then look at possible programs from
M> IBM to convert the mainframe database (VSAM?) files into DB2/AIX,
M> or Oracle databases. And that I thought Oracle had some facility
M> such that we could cluster and load-balance two+ nodes running
M> something like Parallel Oracle so that should a node need booting
M> or modifying off-line the application is still running (at
M> reduced capacity) for the users.

M> Thoughts?

I don't know much about the VSAM, but I would expect that you'd
accomplish moving your data from OS/390 to AIX by doing a dump
(loosely speaking) of the database and then feeding it into the
RDBMS on AIX.

Regards,

Nicholas

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