Re: Question (pre-newbie) about DB2

[jim t <jim_t_59@xxxxxxxxx>]

It sound like you are a Database Administrator. If that is the case then I have bad news: The System I does not required database administrators for tuning the files/databases.


--- On Wed, 12/3/08, McKown, John <John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: McKown, John <John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Question (pre-newbie) about DB2
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 8:42 PM
> I know that the DB2 which runs on z/OS is different from the
> DB2 which
> runs on Linux/Windows. DB2 on "distributed"
> systems is called UDB. Is
> the DB2 on the i the same as UDB, or is it a i-only
> variant? I ask
> because I had heard that DB2 on the i was different from
> the other DB2
> versions. From what my manager is saying, it looks like we
> are very
> likely to move from our z to an i sometime in late 2009 or
> early 2010. I
> don't know if this means that __I__ will get retrained
> or axed.
>  
> John McKown 
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