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Question on DB2 Basics

Post by madhavi » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:59 pm

Why we are calling mainframe database as DB2?

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Post by Natarajan » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:10 pm

DB2 is a RDBMS available not only on IBM mainframes, also available on linu, unix , windows...
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Post by dbzTHEdinosauer » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:20 pm

DB2 is the trademark name of the IBM product.
IBM is not going to change it anytime soon.
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JCL, SQL and code in programs have an irritating habit of doing what you say,
not what you meant.

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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:47 pm

Prior to this, a similar product was named SQL/DS on the VM mainframe, may that's why they append 2 in the name...
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