Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Hi Larry! ISVs like Siebel and Peoplesoft develop on DB2, it sounds great but can you tell me what all features of DB2 that they are using other than backup and restore. In DB2 for web enabled application to communicate, you need IBM MQ series and 5-10 experts for MQ administration and development work. IBM doesn't tell the actual cost to buy and maintain MQ to the customers during initial sales meeting. I think INFORMIX is a better and stable product of IBM on non Main Frames system. In DB2, when instance disappear the simple soution is to resrat it by db2start command. There are many companies that can effort it in production so they will not mind it at all. Peter "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> wrote in message news:<bk39q9$oq4r4$1@ID-79573.news.uni-berlin.de>... > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > > >[SNIP] > > very large BMW because I have a very small willy. Market share played > >[SNIP] > > However, market share *is* important for ISVs and third party > > developers -- they are reluctant to develop on and support a platform > > that doesn't give them broad exposure to the market. Conversely, this > >[SNIP] > > How horrible; OTC talking about his very small willy, and broad exposure, in > the same message. I need an aspirin and a good lie down....

Peter wrote: > I think INFORMIX is a better and stable product of IBM on non > Main Frames system. In DB2, when instance disappear the simple > soution is to resrat it by db2start command. There are many > companies that can effort it in production so they will not > mind it at all. The instance doesn't disappear - the processes disappear. There's a difference, and that's the difference that I think has confused a number of people ;-) In short, you managed to get DB2 to crash. In DB2 v8, there is a new feature called the Fault Monitor which can detect a crash and restart the server for you automatically. This may alleviate (but not eliminate) your problem. All that said, there are a number of people who would be interested in the PMR number for this problem to see what they can do about getting it fixed even without the Fault Monitor.

Darin McBride wrote: > In DB2 v8, there is a new feature called the Fault Monitor which can > detect a crash and restart the server for you automatically. This may > alleviate (but not eliminate) your problem. The database crashes so often they have something that restarts the server? I'm sold -- where do I sign the order? -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche