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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

715.0. "Interoperate w/ SQL/DS?" by STLACT::LINCOLN (Myra Lincoln) Wed Aug 15 1990 17:34

    Does anyone know if any product that would allow interoperability
    between a VAX (preferably Rdb) and SQL/DS? 
    
    Can anyone tell me anything about SQL/DS? I know it runs under VM, VSE
    and CICS/VS -- are there any other platforms? Is it an IBM product?
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715.1SorryPOBOX::BOOTHBo knows MUMPSWed Aug 15 1990 20:1412
    Almost any database (except Rdb) has connections to SQL/DS. Sybase,
    Ingres, Oracle all have such capability. Focus can run on both SQL/DS
    and Rdb, and transfer data Focus-to-Focus. I have no idea why Digital
    has failed to build a gateway to SQL/DS.
    
    SQL/DS is IBM's "other" (other than DB2) relational database. It is
    used extensively (better than 9,000 licenses) in the non-MVS world.
    That would include Labs, scientific, development, etc. It is most
    definitely a very successful IBM product. I think it is developed in
    the Toronto IBM development facility.
    
    ---- Michael Booth
715.2Sterling Software .... maybeMAIL::DUNCANGOracle... the one-line databaseSat Aug 18 1990 01:164
    I think Sterling Software (co-author of VAXlink) has an extractor
    for SQL/DS.
    
    -- gerry
715.3SQL/DS infoBROKE::THOMASFri Aug 24 1990 18:5925
    SQL/DS was IBM's first production relational database.  It appeared 
    two years before DB2.  SQL/DS is IBM's non-MVS mainframe-based 
    relational database.  SQL/DS runs under both DOS/VSE and stand-alone
    VM operating systems, although the two environments are not entirely 
    compatible.
    
    SQL/DS under DOS/VSE requires CICS for interactive SQL and online
    applications.  SQL/DS under VM supports CMS users.  CICS under VM
    is very different from CICS under DOS/VSE, and I don't know if you
    can access VM/SQL/DS from VM/CICS applications.
    
    SQL/DS under DOS/VSE running as a guest operating system under VM
    is equivalent to SQL/DS running under DOS/VSE.
    
    Answer/DB Extractor (from Sterling Software) runs under DOS/VSE 
    and can be used to access SQL/DS.  VAXlink V1.1 is supposed to 
    support Answer/DB Extractor in the DOS/VSE environment, although we
    were not able to find a DOS/VSE field test site.  Officially, VAXlink
    V1.1 does not support access to SQL/DS under DOS/VSE, but we would be
    happy to support a test site.
    
    Answer/DB Extractor does not support the VM environment, so we do not
    have a mechanism to access SQL/DS under standalone VM.
    
    Anne