RE: Does oracle still run on iSeries?

Thanks for this info. This does sound interesting if I end up with an Oracle database in the future. It may be possible to push some of the Oracle data into DB2 so my iSeries apps have easy access to that data and possibly access the DB2 data using the Oracle BI products that come with the ERP package.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn Birnbaum
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 4:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Does oracle still run on iSeries?

Hi Mike,

There is a product called the Oracle Transparent Gateway which has been
around for a long time. It runs on the iSeries in a subsystem called
OTG400 and has a job called the LISTENER, which we have listening on
port 18000. This allows the iSeries to appear as an extension of the
Oracle distributed database. This may not be what you're looking for,
since it is not Oracle running on the iSeries. It's actually the native
DB2 database running on the iSeries appearing as an Oracle database to
another platform (Unix, Linux, Windoz) with Oracle running.

I have no idea about costs, licenses, etc. Here's a link to the product
description at Oracle.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/gateways/tg4db2400.htm

HTH,
Glenn Birnbaum

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Cunningham
Subject: Does oracle still run on iSeries?

I remember past discussions or Oracle running on iSeries and I can find
some info from a few years back on this but nothing recent and nothing
that gives much detail. One the Oracle site there is no mention of
iSeries or i5/os but there is AIX5L and Linux on Power. If one
wanted/needed to run Oracle in an iSeries shop is running an AIX or
Linux partition the answer? If so is anyone on this list doing this and
have any feedback for someone who might need to do the same in the near
future?

Thanks