Shadow is quite different, as are DB2 tools. They're all running on the mainframe itself.
In addition to the problems mentioned, you may have all kinds of data integrity and consistency problems if you try to write something. Even reads aren't necessarily going to have full consistency unless you quiesce DB2. One can think of a lot of drawbacks, but what are the benefits versus, say, JDBC or ODBC with zIIP? - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific 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
