Question about UDB on iSeries

["McKown, John" <john.mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please keep in mind that I know **ZERO** about the iSeries and UDB. We are 
considering a conversion from z/OS on zSeries to i5OS on iSeries. The company 
doing the presentation basically said that everything that we need, with a few 
exceptions, is integrated into the i5OS on the iSeries. In particular UBD is 
integrated (so we don't need to buy it). But I was wondering if any iSeries 
people out there have an opinion about the lack of requirement for any extra 
software to support UDB on iSeries. Such as performance monitors, 
reorganization utilities, anything at all? I'm confused (as usual) about why 
UDB on iSeries does not require any such software while it appears, to me, that 
DB2 on z/OS really requires a lot of extra cost software. This is the whole 
reason that we are considering this conversion. z/OS simply requires too much 
extra cost software compared to other platforms.

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