Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sjm
From: sjm@execu.UUCP (Steve Murchie)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Database Access Tools
Message-ID: <256@execu.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 21:39:52 GMT
Reply-To: sjm@execu.UUCP (Steve Murchie)
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Organization: Execucom Systems Corp., Austin, Texas
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I am interested in 'generalized' database access tools which function in
heterogeneous hardware/software environments.  Ideally, the product should
have the following:

    o standard query language (SQL would be OK, too ;-))
    o support for a wide variety of communications protocols
        (SNA, DECnet, TCP/IP, etc.)
    o support for a number of host environments 
        (including MVS, VM, VMS, UNIX, OS/2)
    o extractors for a variety of databases and file structures
        (DB2, SQL/DS, Rdb, ORACLE, INGRESS, VSAM, etc.)
    o the ability to route and queue requests between networks

If anyone knows of such a beast, I'd like to hear about it.  'Star' products
from the database vendors usually don't qualify, because they assume a 
heterogeneous hardware/homogeneous software environment (i.e., the DBMS
must exist on all the hosts).  Thanks in advance for any replies.

(New poster - sorry if this has been covered before)


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