I worked with the OS390 at IBM and many if not all software that IBM supplies
relies upon DB2 for the DB backend. They treat everything else as another
issue in regards to their support for this feature. Oracle should be able to
run with no problems, but if you want to use many of the latest features such
as LDAP or the like, you will also need DB2. Although you can probably get
somethign to work with Oracle.
In article <3870EB47.D37DBBBF_at_webmart.net>, Terry Banicki
<Banicki_at_webmart.net> wrote:
>We are running 7.3.3 on OS/390. Have been running it for several years.
>Looking to upgrade, but have to stay in sync with the application. By the
>way, we are only using it as the integrating server for the Transparent
>Gateway to DB2, no data stored on the mainframe.
>Oracle support has been relatively good, once you get past the first line of
>support. Once a long time ago, I recieved an upgrade tape with a single
>sheet of 5 instructions. Step 5 was to re-IPL. That was pretty funny!
>
>Brad Skiles wrote:
>
>> We're looking into the possibility of running Oracle8 on our OS/390. Is
>> anyone using this combination? I'd be most appreciative of feedback
>> regarding how well this works, problems with Oracle on this platform, and
>> whether or not Oracle will support OS/390 in the future.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Brad Skiles,
>> Manager, Data/Database Administration
>> Management Information, Purdue University
>> bwskiles_at_purdue.edu
>
>
>
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