Can someone tell me,
How Rational suite can help the mainframe z/os development process, testing and deployments and so on.
Sure. IBM will be happy to promote their Rational software.
Edited based on the comment: Rational software on the workstation has secret proprietary hooks into an IBM mainframe (JES, file structure) that no other software can have.
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I am trying to connect to a client's DB2 v7.2 database in Linux.
I am pretty new to DB2 and could not find 7.2 odbc driver in IBM site. The earliest is 9.1 odbc driver. Is this compatible with v7.2 ?
IBM does not make such old legacy drivers publicly available, for good reasons.
Genuine IBM customers always have a way to acquire legacy drivers however, although this is wholly dependent on who you know.
The v9.1 ODBC driver might have trouble accessing v7.2. It rather depends on which fixpacks are deployed (client and server), which operating-system (for client), and what authorization level you have for the target instance, and what rights you have at the workstation end, apart from the level of competence needed. This is not work for beginners.
Keep in mind that legacy drivers may not be able to install on modern workstation operating-system versions (for example , they might need the workstation operating system to be also a legacy version).
Another approach is to have a detailed understanding of exactly how (with which versions and tools) the client currently connects to that legacy database, and then seek to emulate that mix of versions, possibly by cloning.
This is not a programming question so stackoverflow may not be the correct forum. There are IBM specific forums run by IBM which may help.
When trying to install Talend MDM, the documentation said something rather interesting:
"JBoss Application Server comes prepackaged with Talend MDM."
That would make my life a lot easier, but I can't tell if they are trying to say that Talend's downloadable version of JBoss comes with Talend MDM, or if the open source JBoss AS actually comes with Talend?
If so, what other neat software tools come prepackaged with JBoss, and if so, how can I view a listing?
There's a misunderstanding here. What the documentation means is that as part of the Talend MDM product, the JBoss Application Server is shipped. So JBoss is a component (actually the core component) of Talend MDM. Not the other way round.
Talend MDM actually depends on the precise version of JBoss that is shipped with the product (it may even be modified here or there), so it is not possible to install Talend MDM into a different JBoss instance.
What is the difference between Alfresco Community Edition and Alfresco Enterprise Edition ?
Any differences in both features it provides ?
Can we down load Enterprise edition with longer trial license ?
The Enterprise Edition is the commercially supported Edition. In addition to support, you also get patches, updates, indemnity, and access to certified partners. From a functionality standpoint, the software is virtually the same. There are a few things only available to Enterprise such as support for commercial databases and application servers, the XAM connector, and JMX.
Both Enterprise and Community are tested by our QA team. When it is time to distribute an Enterprise release, a branch is created. That branch undergoes additional testing and is frequently patched with fixes. These fixes go into the Enterprise release for that branch and are later merged back into the main code line so that they will be available in a future Community release.
Both Enterprise and Community are 100% open source. Community is distributed under the LGPLv3 license.
If you start an Enterprise Trial and you need to extend beyond your 30 day license you should talk to the account rep you are working with. Extensions can be granted.
Actually, as of the 4.1 releases, HA & clustering is no longer supported at all in the community. Research the forums and you will see that enterprise is the only way to go for enterprise deployments.
They say
Alfresco Enterprise Edition includes Document Management, Web Content Management, Share and the Content Platform. Records Management, as well as Enterprise add-ons such as clustering and a connector for content addressable storage can be added as an additional subscription on top of the base subscription.
Contact us to learn more about pricing for our Alfresco Enterprise Subscription.
thats wrong! the addons such as clustering are included in the community release. the difference is, that the enterprise version is the stable version with support and extensive tests
see: http://storage.pardot.com/1234/46851/Alfresco_Datasheet_Community_Network_eng.pdf
"No High-Availability Cluster Testing"
In my opinion, the Community Edition is generally sufficient to serve about 50 concurrent users. This should be good enough for most usage scenarios. The Community Edition has all the core features that the Enterprise Edition has. The only difference is, you do not get official technical support for the Community Edition from the company. However, Alfresco has a strong users community base that provides assistance when needed.
You can try Alfresco Community Edition by subscribing to hosted services offered at http://www.alfresco-fusion.com
After signing up you will be offered fully functional Alfresco Server at a very affordable monthly cost.
I used Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) to build my project. Scripts are written in python. The BDD I am having doesn't support Visual Studio 2008.
Please tell me what is the latest version of BDD which supports VS2008
where I can get more info about Business Desktop Deployment?
BDD is a mini-methodology related to acceptance testing and TDD (it does stuff higher up, but this is probably what you're doing).
From your question, it looks like you've been writing BDD scenarios or unit examples in Python. Visual Studio isn't a great tool for writing Python in. If you want to carry on in Python, try Vim, or you might be able to get a Python plugin for Eclipse or IntelliJ.
If you want to use Visual Studio to program, use C# or F#. There are a couple of great BDD frameworks - SpecFlow or TickSpec - which can help you.
More information, including a list of tools, is available on the Wikipedia page on BDD.
Otherwise, please clarify your problem. It doesn't make huge sense in its current form!
Edit: Well, I learn something new every day. BDD also stands for "Business Desktop Deployment", and is a Microsoft product. Here's a page with an update suggesting you should use Microsoft Development Toolkit. Hope that points you in the right direction. I imagine the tool we've been using, click-once, does something similar.
You should probably know that few people seem to recognise BDD as meaning anything other than Behaviour Driven Development in software these days. I've heard Binary Decision Diagram as well; not often though. Good luck in your search.
There's an article here that might help you with Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) versions. It's dated March 2009 and says:
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008 Update 1 replaces all prior versions of MDT and BDD. It provides additional support for new OS versions and deployment scenarios and is the upgrade path for users of earlier versions.
The article points to the MDT 2010 download page.
According to the answers in this comparison question, there's no technical difference between the core PostgreSQL engine and Postgres Plus server from EnterpriseDB. The developer license is only $95/seat.
Their development tools look quite attractive and that cost might be worth it to get increased productivity even if you then deploy the open source version. Has anyone tried this and run into problems?
The only development tools I see there look an awful lot like pgadmin III, which is free software (both in terms of money and freedom).
Were there other development tools you were referring to?