Re: Oracle interface to DB2 on OS/390

"Schauss, Peter" wrote:
>
> We are working on an application which runs under AIX, using
> Oracle which needs access to some data stored in a legacy app
> using DB2 on OS/390. Is it possible to create a DBLink in
> the Oracle database so that we can query from the DB2 instance?
>
> thanks,
>
> Peter Schauss
> Northrop Grumman Corporation
> 516-346-3148
> schaupe_at_mail.northgrum.com

Yes it is, but you may need a special gateway. The first non-Oracle database accessible was DB2. I even remember that there was a problem with SQL*Net V2, which could not access DB2 because it was using rowids and that DB2 had none.

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