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data and business process have become locked into the proprietary,
low-level structures of the DB2/400 database.
...
The DB2/400 database will be seamlessly replaced with Oracle.
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Gee, stupid little me didn't realize the Oracle was "not proprietary".
When did it go "open"? I don't know DB2/400 or Oracle very well, but DB2
has most, if not all, of the standard Oracle features.
However, it __will__ stimulate the economy. After all, the company will
likely replace "n" people with at least "1.5*n" people after conversion!
One thing never mention on any of these conversions is the
sort-sequence. At the very least, some reports will change because in
EBCDIC the digits (0..9) sort __after__ alphabetic characters whereas in
ASCII or Unicode, they sort __before__ alphabetic characters. OK, this
is a bit of a "nit", but I've had end users scream about things even
more minor.
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