On 12/12/2016 11:50 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Along those lines, would such a product have to/be able to "emulate" DB2? Easy to come halfway close (MySQL) -- damned difficult to do it all. Just ask Oracle.
Doesn't DB2 UDB run on non-z platforms? If so, you might be able to intercept the z/OS DB2 calls and redirect them to non-z version you've installed.
Although most-likely technically feasible given enough time and customer mind share, it seems to me that the real difficulty for LzLabs will be a business model based on antiquated metrics in an ever-changing landscape.
Today's z/OS-based mainframe is doing things unimagined just a few years ago such as web-based software management, MWaaS cloud-based middleware provisioning, arguably the best Java implementation in the industry, substantial and ever increasing participation in the API Economy, etc. with new innovations appearing more quickly than ever thanks to Agile/DevOps/continuous delivery development models. (It's precisely these innovations that enabled Rocket Software's Apache Spark implementation to be developed and made available to z/OS customers in near record time.)
It's no longer clear that moving off the mainframe can be fully rationalized as the "smart" choice for most z/OS customers. Indeed, many are moving work in the opposite direction with great success and saving heaps of money in the process. One excellent example is the "z/OS and DevOps" story Walmart told in their Tuesday morning keynote presentation at SHARE in Atlanta...
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