rhetorical answer to a rhetorical question:
I am under impression that TSM DB and DB2 are some sort of cousins -
derived from same SQL/370 design or code. Thus the answer to your question
might be "when TSM DB is going to catch up with recent improvements on
DB2/Informix front".
I still remember (and can find in my archives) the Roger's post on the
thread "rollforward vs. normal mode" nearly a year ago. TDP for TSM is not
so silly as it sounds. But if an add-on product is developed allowing
multi-stream TSM DB backups/restores and better access to DB contents for
queries, it might be sold separately as DRM was in v4.2 and before
(regardless the name).
Wake up IBM/Tivoli Marketing, developers and support are good but you have
to be inventive too. And better not by changing licensing schema on each
version or changing prices every quarter.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






Fred Johanson <fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU>
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My real question, rhetorical of course, is when is TIVOLI going to supply
us with a tool kit for identifying and working thru  DB problems?  Why do
I
have to write some code to identify an object in the DB?  Why are there no
functions available to do this?

Wouldn't it be nice if V5R3 or V6R1, whichever comes first, were devoted
to
the care and feeding of the TSM DB.

My $.02 anyway.

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