| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World | 
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND | 
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 | 
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
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Is anyone familiar with AnswerDB? I've heard of it but I can't find any description of it at all. I'm meeting with a customer tomorrow who is supposedly considering it for their database sw. Any help would be appreciated. regards, Paul Moran, emass::moran
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| 1176.1 | MUNICH::KONOPIK | It's all magic ... | Wed Aug 05 1992 08:57 | 14 | |
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       I hope I remember correctly. Answer/DB is a software from Sterling
       and runs on IBM mainframes. It is also called Extractor which says
       more or less what the software does. Answer/DB is able to extract
       data from various sources (VSAM files, IMS/DB, DB2) and write thus
       data into a VSAM file. Someone told me the Answer/DB software is 
       fairly expensive and not simple to setup correctly.
    
       We used to have a product called VAXlink which enabled a user to
       attach to Answer/DB on the IBM side to extract data and later to
       load the data into a Rdb database. VAXlink was retired at least a
       year ago.
    
            Georg
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