Re: R7 DB2/UDB vs iSeries

Mr. Brill was in Mass but he's out of Illinois now.

He talked about this at his blog back in August:

http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotus-domino-7-and-the-db2-storage-option?opendocument&comments

"Don't know about how this affects iSeries/400 plans yet, since that still 
depends on a change to DB2/400"

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
Senior Mid-Range Systems Administrator
IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.5
803.326.7270 | 803.326.6142 fax
http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com/

domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
10/13/2005 10:38:50 AM:

> Mr. Brill must be a Bostonian out of the Lotus group. His IBM directory 
> page shows him with a Massachusetts phone number.
> 
> We're hearing V5R4 is being announced in January, but I don't think 
we're 
> gonna get Walter Scanlan to confirm that.... :-))
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> Paul Nelson
> Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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> I went to an "IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 7 Live!" show in Indy 
yesterday.
> 
> The presenter with the think European accent, who spoke with a monotone, 

> who ignored the title of session 2a and repeated only stuff presented 
> previously said that DB2/UDB doesn't run on the iSeries yet.  Evidently 
> he's not playing on the IBM team.
> 
> Then he remarked that the reason that the DB2/UDB - Domino interface is 
> not supported on the iSeries yet is that they need to add some 
additional 
> features to the iSeries version of DB2/UDB.  I tried to pin him down on 
> what was needed, and if this missing feature(s) were going to be on the 
> next release of i5/OS and I couldn't get an answer.
> 
> Ed Brill asked how many people were running Domino on Windows and 
several 
> hands went up.  Then he asked how many were running it on iSeries and 
that 
> 
> dwarfed the Windows people.  At that time Ed made a comment on "Oh, it's 

> the Midwest."  No one on zOS and a small handful on the rest of the 
> platforms.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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