I think it would depend on how cheap your programming staff is, where the apps are, and how much custom app code interacts with IMS data. If you do DAV or something like that in a Linux guest plus a copy of IMSConnect, the roll your own is probably cheaper for startup, but more expensive over time unless you're really, really good at data object design. If you plan to go to a majority of your apps in Java and are going to glue everything together with Java objects, it's kind of a coin-flip at that point.
EDBC has decent support, but it has the usual CA support model (for better or worse) of a small number of really good support people with real clues and a lot of manual readers that sort-of understand what's happening, and you have to whack your way through the manual readers to get to the clued people. Rolling your own, you'd have to do all that yourself, but it might be just as well. Like I said, it seems to work well for these folks, and it doesn't give me too many headaches as the system janitor, so best I can say is YMMV. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Rengasamy, Samy > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is anybody using CA's Advantage EDBC? > > > How would edbc fare against (IMSConnect + in-house developed > solutions) > to access the data sources by price and performance...? > > Samy Rengasamy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is anybody using CA's Advantage EDBC? > > > I have one customer who uses it. It seems to work well, although it's > somewhat pricey for what it does. Comments from that customer > indicated > that it was simpler to use than DB2/Connect, and it's a lot simpler to > order the product. > > Does anyone know if the ordering process for DB2/Connect has been > simplified/clarified at all? It was still pretty murky last time I > checked. > > -- db > > > >
