>Is there a non-IBM mainframe LDAP available? Should IBM LDAP be >required to use only standard SQL thus making any relational appearing >data base usable?
We'll have to see how the z/OS 1.8 LDAP Statement of Direction evolves. You may wish to ask your favorite IBM contact about participating in the z/OS 1.8 ESP if this new LDAP is of interest to you. You may also wish to discuss the DB2 licensing issue if you're not a DB2 shop, although I wonder (aloud) whether it would be possible to fence DB2 into a small LPAR (perhaps running z/OS.e if you have z800 or z890) for your LDAP. There are non-IBM LDAP implementations available, although I make no endorsements. If you're an ACF2 or TopSecret shop then CA, for example, has LDAP. I think it's officially called CA eTrust LDAP Server for z/OS. And there's OpenLDAP for z/OS. There are also multiple options on Linux on System z, including the no charge (except for support) IBM Tivoli Directory Server. Most Linux distributions ship with OpenLDAP (a.k.a. slapd). - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
