Re: MYSQL on AS/400.... -- MIDRANGE-L

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On 4/26/07, Elvis Budimlic <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"unembed the database part of i5/OS" - this is an absolute horror scenario.
Integrated DB2 is the BEST part of this box.

just speculating what IBM is up to. they have consolidated on one JVM
for AIX and i5/OS. they like to save money and consolidating on one
DB2 would do that.

Think how many System i DBAs you know. Now think how many Oracle, SQL
Server, mySQL DBAs you know. Or search for these jobs on Monster and like.
Do you see a discrepancy there? That's because IBM takes care of you!
Yes, you can take care of table extents, creating clustered indexes,
spreading the data across drives etc. but why would you want to?

why would any of this be different if the database was a pluggable
component of the system? The database object provides interfaces
that the OS calls into to provide the seamless end product that you
are describing.

externally described files in RPG, DSPDBR, save/restore - there is
nothing special about DB2 on system i that enables these features.

-Steve

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