Re: Company thought DB2 will be better than Oracle.

Both these ISV's use DB2's call-level interface. Apart from the obvious (SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE), there are many specific features we added to DB2 to facilitate an ISV: SAP uses the following DB2 features on Linux / Unix / Windows: mirrored logging suspend i/o fetch first n rows syntax load from call-level interface alter table modify varchar64-bit log addressing Expanded Unicode support online reorg on-demand log archiving backup from split mirror rename table rename index sql access to monitor Control Center for zOS block transactions but allow select when log space exhausted Siebel uses: - client side load - dynamic configuration parameters - set isolation level Peter wrote: > 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....