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usha.ushaa
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Can anyone explain why DB2 is supporting only LDS and not any other
VSAM datasets.
Thanks in Advance,
Usha |
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usha.ushaa
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Actually tablespace is an LDS and an index is also an LDS . How these
two are correlated(for eg: if I delete a table the index is also deleted)
how this happens? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
What you are asking about is the IBM design of DB2. These are not something dba/programmer/etc people have any control over.
There is no good reason for these - it is just they way db2 was implemented.
DB2 is designed to only work on "tables" and the other types ov files are not db2 tables. . .
If this is not what you wanted, please let us know. |
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Craq Giegerich
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| If you don't like the way DB2 operates you can always write your own version. |
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pavchau1
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Hi Dick Scherrer,
Yeah I understand Db2 is designed in such way so it uses only LDS, but back in old days, Db2 used ESDS and now LDS is standard, so my question is what is the reason so Db2 switched to LDS from ESDS. LDS has any benefit over ESDS or something else?
Thanks,
Pavan Chauhan |
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dneufarth
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| I believe Mr Scherrer passed away. |
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pavchau1
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| i am sorry |
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pavchau1
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| anyone else can answer my question? |
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Robert Sample
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Yes, Mr. Scherrer passed away about 5 years ago.
IBM does not provide any rationales for why they do things, but I would guess the byte-oriented nature of LDS and its lack of record structure compared to ESDS may have something to do with why they switched. However, unless you work for IBM's DB2 group it is EXTREMELY unlikely that you will ever find out the precise reasons for the change. |
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Rohit Umarjikar
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John Poulakos
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| ESDS datasets are extremely unstable and don't follow standards dictated by the Access Control Block architecture. |
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vasanthz
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Rohit Umarjikar
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| No more old school philosophy, that’s great to know thanks |
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