Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Feb 1 13:03:20 CST 2006
Thanks Marty! Seems like one better start out with a modest DCMG (Don't Call Me God). /gustav >>> martyconnelly at shaw.ca 01-02-2006 19:33:14 >>> DB2 has been around since 1982. Actually there were two of them SQL/DS ran on the VSE and VM operating systems. It came to market in the early 1980s. A little later, IBM also introduced DB2, another SQL-based DBMS, this one for the MVS operating system. The two products have coexisted since then; however, SQL/DS was rebranded as "DB2 for VM and VSE" in the late 1990s. I have been a plebe Cobol programmer using DB2 in the late 90's, never allowed near the actual live or test databases. The DBA's all seemed to have British knighthood's like the GCMG; some people say the various levels of the Cross of Michael and St. George actually stands for CMG -call me god, KCMG kindly call me god: GCMG god calls me god. Gustav Brock wrote: >Hi Robert > >Oh, so you are a true DB2 veteran! > >I played around a little with version 7 but had no real purpose for it, and anything DB2 sounded quite expensive, so ... >But with this edition the picture has changed.