Databases used in Mainframes

Maddipatla Rajasekhar · New User Joined: 10 Mar 2009 Posts: 16 Location: Hyderabad

1) what are all the databases that can be used in Mainframes, other than DB2, IMS and ADABAS?

2) Is it not possible to use the windows based databases in Mainframes?

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:34 pm

There are probably dozens of databases (depending on how precisely that term is defined) in use on mainframes. It would take a lot of time to come up with a list, and probably a few weeks to ensure it is a comprehensive list.

Windows has a different architecture, disk structure, file structure, and collating sequence. Why on earth would you even think using Windows based databases on a mainframe would be possible? There are databases -- such as DB2 and Oracle -- that have mainframe and Windows functionality but the products are not identical on the different platforms.

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:38 pm

Our corporate database standard is Oracle.

superk · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:59 pm

Then there's CA Datacom.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:50 pm

Hello,

Here are some of the mainframe database products (depending on just what you might consider a database product) i've come in contact with over the years. . .