On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:39:03 -0400, Bill Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:
>If you need near-time or real-time access to the data, I would recommend >you look at CA Technologies product called VSAM Transparency for >Datacom/DB. Having used this for a lot of years, it was great. The >20-second description is that it allows your application programs to >continue accessing the database as if it was VSAM, but you also get the >benefit of a full-blown database file (concurrent online and batch updates, >SQL access, access through a server, etc.). It is really pretty great to >use, fairly easy to implement (I believe - I didn't do it), but it is not >free. We used it for quite a while and converted a couple vendor >applications using VSAM to the database, and the vendor code had no >problems. The only real changes were to JCL and to the FCT in CICS. > >Billy > Billy, We're not a Datacom shop and I'm not sure if this is a product that enables access to the VSAM datasets from a Linux platform either. Based on what you have said it looks like this is meant for applications that are on zOS? In fact the datasheet at this link http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/datacom_ideal/infodocs/vseesa_dbtransoptvsam21.asp says operating platform is VSE. Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
