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From: hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.infosystems,comp.software-eng
Subject: A REPOSITORY SURVEY (please help)
Message-ID: <25766.26fea055@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 05:09:57 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I am very much interested to see if any of you have installed
or plan to install/build a REPOSITORY (data dictionary,
encyclopedia) at your organization, and if so:

- What platforms it's or will be built on?
  (e.g.; Bachman, Brownstone's Data Solution, DBEXCEL,
  Maestro, etc.)
- What is/are the host computer(s)?
  (e.g.; IBM, DEC, etc.)
- How useful and reliable it turned out to be?
- How long have you been using it?
- What were/are your main concerns/problems?
- and any other comments you may have?

What is a repository? A repository is a way to save, acquire,
maintain, model, share, query, manage, standardize, verify,
compare, define, identify, structure, and restructure
information about information.
A repository is a central storage facility, a host-
workstation communication facility; it is a translator;
it is a set of standards.
A repository is a single point of control for your APPLICATION
LIFE-CYCLE. It is an amalgam of programs and DASD, of
hardware and protocols that can run on various platforms
and communicate with sundry software products from multiple
vendors.
[from Solution Space, An IBM I/S Management Institute
publication, April 1990]

Please reply by e-mail, and I'll try to post a summary of
replies.

Thanks.

M. Hemmat
Hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu  (internet)
Hemmat@ukanvax  (bitnet)