Santosh_Nambiar wrote:

> Hi All,
> Everybody is talking about DB2/Oracle/Sybase/Sql server....How about
> IMS/IDMS...I am at the beginning of my career and am working as a DBA on
> DB2 Mainframe...i thought IMS would be a good option to learn after DB2
> as they are on same platform...but now, do I have to look into AIX....

I used to use IMS/DB back in the mid-eighties. That was a mildly
unpleasant experience - typical mainframe cryptic commands, and the
database is only fast for those queries that it is specifically designed
for. Need to know anything else and it's both a lot of work and slow.

Meanwhile, I haven't seen a new app go to IMS/DB since probably 1989.
But quite a few moved from IMS/DB to its relational competitors. I'd
consider it a serious dead-end.

ken farmer


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