John McKown writes: >But it does not refute the "z/OS is hard to get data out of" >thoughts because it induces the "see, if data access on z/OS >were easy, we'd have access to _current_ data and not need to >be doing all this data duplication into an easy to access >system like MS SQL Server".
As I suspect you're already aware, there are many industry standard ways to access current, live VSAM data from arbitrary desktop tool X and/or application server Y. Unfortunately none of those methods are available in combination with infinite organizational inertia. I'm not a miracle worker. :-) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
