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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

1176.0. "Anyone familiar with AnserDB?" by EMASS::MORAN () Tue Aug 04 1992 23:26

Is anyone familiar with AnswerDB?  I've heard of it but I can't find any 
description of it at all.  I'm meeting with a customer tomorrow who is 
supposedly considering it for their database sw.  Any help would be appreciated.

regards, Paul Moran, emass::moran
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1176.1MUNICH::KONOPIKIt's all magic ...Wed Aug 05 1992 09:5714
    
       I hope I remember correctly. Answer/DB is a software from Sterling
       and runs on IBM mainframes. It is also called Extractor which says
       more or less what the software does. Answer/DB is able to extract
       data from various sources (VSAM files, IMS/DB, DB2) and write thus
       data into a VSAM file. Someone told me the Answer/DB software is 
       fairly expensive and not simple to setup correctly.
    
       We used to have a product called VAXlink which enabled a user to
       attach to Answer/DB on the IBM side to extract data and later to
       load the data into a Rdb database. VAXlink was retired at least a
       year ago.
    
            Georg