RE: Question (pre-newbie) about DB2

["McKown, John" <John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: Question (pre-newbie) about DB2
>
> It sound like you are a Database Administrator. If that is 
> the case then I have bad news: The System I does not required 
> database administrators for tuning the files/databases.

Nope. I'm a sysprog or "system administrator". I.e. I install the OS and
do maintenance on it. I also install other vendor software. I
occasionally write little utility programs in various languages (REXX
and assembler mainly, but I am also familiar with COBOL, Perl, Python,
C, Java, and other less popular languages).

I was mainly wondering how the DB2 on i might differ from UDB on
Linux/UNIX/Windows.

Also, we are mainly an Oracle shop (Linux, Windows, and AIX). How well
does DB2 on the i "play" with Oracle on other platforms?

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John McKown 
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