RE: Performance of ODBC vs. other access methods

NO, IT DOES NOT NEED "just as much administering as other systems"!
Have you served as a DBA on System i & other systems?  
There's no comparison!
Actually, most System i companies I talk to don't have a DBA function in
their company.  That's definitely not the case on other platforms.
And System i has had "just in time index builds" for ever.  They were called
temporary indexes in CQE and are now called Maintained Temporary Indexes
(MTIs - V5R4).  MTIs are now shared by all jobs on the system.

I don't mind when you try to solicit people to go along with you on the i5
vs. p5 pricing issue as it's obviously dear to your heart, and anyway IBM
can probably use some constructive criticism from user community.  
That said, please don't knock down the machine we cherish needlessly and
baselessly.

Elvis

-----Original Message-----
 Subject: Re: Performance of ODBC vs. other access methods

Sounds like the i5 needs just as much administering to keep it running
as other systems.  Selling the i5 at p5 prices would give us quad core
systems in place of the single and even fractional cores available in
the typical i5. With that kind of speed there would be no concern
about just in time index builds.

-Steve