Oracle for the Mainframe

Where we’ve been, where we are today

Summer 2000 SHARE, Boston, MA

Wednesday, July 26, 2000

Ken Panza, Mainframe Program Manager

Oracle Services Industries
[email protected]
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 Agenda

• Some history of Oracle and Relational Database

• Overview of Oracle on OS/390
• Quality assurance and performance
• Mainframe Integration Products
• Migration and conversion

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Short History of Relational Database

• June 1970: E.F. Codd paper is published

– “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”

• 1970-1975: The Great Debates

– Relational vs COBOL/CODASYL Standards
– Relational vs Networked
– Relational vs Hierarchical
• 1976: Prototype relational systems
– System/R developed at IBM Research
– INGRES by a team from Berkley

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Oracle’s Early Years

• 1977: Oracle founded

– Originally “Software Development Laboratories”
– Performed contract programming
– The CIA was Oracle’s 1st database customer
– Oracle was a CIA project name
• 1979: Oracle delivers 1st RDBMS

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Oracle’s First Product - 1979

• First commercial relational database

• Based on System/R and SQL
• Introduced database portability
– Central Intelligence Agency
– IBM Mainframe
– Digital VAX

– Navy Intelligence in San Diego

– Digital VAX
– UNIX

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Oracle Corporation Today

• Total revenue $10.1 Billion

• Employees 41,000+
• Largest RDBMS supplier
• Applications $2.7 Billion
• R&D $1+ Billion
• Global in 140+ countries

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Oracle Support of Mainframes

• 1979: Oracle delivers 1st RDBMS

• 1982: IBM announces SQL/DS
– Based on System/R
– Limited offering
• 1985: IBM announces DB2
• 1986: Oracle delivers on MVS
– (Beta 11/85, Version 4.1.4)
• 1990: Oracle Version 6 on MVS
• 1996: Oracle7 on MVS
• Feb 1999: Oracle8 on OS/390
• Oct 1999: Oracle8i on OS/390
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Innovative from the Beginning

• Industry standard networking support

• Distributed capability and clusters
• Same product across platforms
– Same code base for all platforms
– Oracle is Oracle is Oracle
– Available for OS/390 less than 6 months after UNIX
year end 2000
– Simultaneous release with UNIX by
• Multi-Tasking, Multi-Processing
• Widest range of 3rd party products
• Fully internet and Java enabled
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Oracle Exploits MVS Environment

• Oracle runs as a native MVS application

– Started task in its own address space
– Exploits OS/390 cross memory services
– No special hooks or SVCs
– Uses standard VSAM files
– Uses IBM Multi-Block I/O
– Does not need UNIX Systems Services
• Support same OS/390 Releases as IBM
• Support IBM Networking
– SNA, TCP
• Support IBM Transactions Monitors
– CICS, IMS, TSO ®
Oracle - Architected for Performance

MVS Address Space

System Global Area

Cross-Memory
Services
Database Buffer Cache Redo Log Shared SQL Cache
Buffer

PMON SMON USRn TCBs

USR3 .. .
USR2 (or tasks)
DBWR CKPT RECO LGWR USR1 Kernel

VSAM ESDS

Database Files Redo Log Files

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Oracle for OS/390 Server Environment

OS/390 Address Space

Net8
OS/390 Address Space
Oracle Net8
Batch
OS/390 Address Space (SQL*Net)
OS/390 Address Space
Oracle CICS
Database
Server OS/390 Address Space
IMS/TM

OS/390 Address Space

Cross Memory TSO SQL*Plus
Services OS/390 Address Space
UNIX Services
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Oracle for OS/390 - What Is It?

• Standard Oracle
– Oracle 7.3
– Oracle 8.0.4
– Oracle 8i
• Some differences
• Some extras

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Oracle for OS/390 - Differences

• No “graphical” products
– Oracle Enterprise Manager
– Oracle Developer
– etc..,
• No Developer Server or Application Server
• No Video Server
• No MTS or connection pooling
– Provided by OS/390

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Oracle for OS/390 - Some Extras

• Oracle Applications for OS/390

– Full suite of Financial and Government Applications
• Gateways and Access Managers
– Access Managers for CICS and IMS/TM
– Transparent Gateways for DB2, EDA/SQL, etc...
• Full database portability across multiple platforms
– Windows, UNIX, OS/390
• Designed for Internet applications
• Provide more relational technology on OS/390 than
any other vendor
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Oracle Parallel Server for OS/390

Support for IBM Parallel Sysplex

Oracle
DLM-DB
Oracle IBM 9674 Oracle
DLM S/390 Coupling Facility DLM

3270 Oracle
DBMS

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Dedicated Support for Mainframes

800-Number

UNIX Mainframe
Support Support
Sara Frankel

Colorado Springs Single Point of Contact

Orlando All mainframe support
Common customer interface
Co-located with development

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Oracle Commitment to OS/390

• Committed product since 1986

– Approximately 2,000 OS/390 licenses
– Doubled licenses over the past 2 Years
• Strong relationship with IBM
– IBM/Oracle Competency Center
– Multiprise at Oracle, Reston VA
– Joint development relationships / Redbooks
• Continued growth of OS/390 development
• Support of the longest running SIG at Oracle
– http://www.mvsoraclesig.org/
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Oracle Development Process

• Development model
• Quality assurance
• Performance testing

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 Oracle Development Model

Develop Oracle products

Base development platforms Oracle Core
- Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT Technology
Creates generic source code Development
Code is platform independent

Porting Groups Intel H-P SUN IBM Others

OS/390
Port generic source code to specific platforms
Add necessary interfaces to support generic Oracle
- Called MPM for OS/390
Same Oracle source code across all platforms
Over 90 different platforms supported ®
Oracle Multiprocessing Monitor - MPM

• Oracle Database OS/390 Operating System

– Generic kernel code
– SGA
Oracle
• MPM Database
– Interface to OS/390
– OS/390 specific
– Cross Memory Services
MPM

Address Space

S/390 LPAR
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Multi-Tier Quality Assurance

• Core Technology Development

– Unit testing by every developer
– Base platform QA
– Solaris, HP-UX, NT
– over 200,000 test cases
• Replicated on OS/390
– Ora*Tst - automated testing environment
– Compare base platform and OS/390 results
• Differences?
– Known UNIX vs. OS/390 issue?
– OS/390 port-specific?
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Multi-Tier Performance Testing

• Core Technology Development

– OLTP
– Decision Support
– Customer-Centric
• OS/390 Regression Testing
– OLTP
– Decision Support
– CICS
– Batch Cross-Memory
– Client-Server / SQL*Net

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Oracle on OS/390 Performance

Oracle for OS/390 behaves and performs

the same as Oracle on any other platform
under similar environment conditions.

Oracle for OS/390 Field Facts Letter, April 1999

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S/390 Performance Evolution
205

S/390 G6

1999
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Today: Local Systems Everywhere

• Costly to maintain
• Inconsistent business processes
• Fragmented data

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Consolidate IT and Business Operations

Centrally Manage Systems

Move to Shared Service Centers

• Reduce complexity
• Professional management
• Consistent business practices
• Economies of scale
• Reduce desktop complexity
• Lowest total cost

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Mainframe as Centralized Server

• Integrate Mainframe and UNIX Environments

• Oracle on the Mainframe
– Supports existing mainframe environments
– IMS, CICS, TSO, Batch, etc…
– Move applications and data into central site
– Professional management of distributed assets
• Oracle is Oracle is Oracle
– Oracle is common across all platforms

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“The reality is our customers operate in a heterogeneous
IT world, consisting of a combination of NT, Unix and host
- or data transaction - servers. With the continuing
maturation of e-business, customers demand flexibility,
interoperability and choice. There is simply no one server
architecture to meet their increasingly complex computing
requirements.”

Sam Palmisano, IBM Corporation

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Mainframe Integration Products

Integrate disparate data sources and applications

• Oracle Access Manager for IMS and CICS

– IMS and CICS applications access to Oracle
• Oracle Transparent Gateways for DB2
– Oracle client access to DB2 for OS/390
• Oracle Transparent Gateway for EDA/SQL
– Oracle client access to mainframe data
– VSAM, IMS/DB, Datacom, Adabas, Model 204, etc...

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 Net8 (Formally SQL*Net)

Enterprise-Wide Connectivity

SQL*Net SQL*Net

Client
Oracle Oracle
Oracle
Access distributed data as if on a single computer
Mainframe becomes part of an Oracle distributed network
Supports load balancing and multiple connection routes
Detects failures and switches to alternate route
Broadest support for networking protocols ®
 Access Manager for IMS, CICS

SQL*Net

IMS or CICS User Oracle Oracle on

for OS/390 UNIX or NT

IMS Oracle Oracle

or Access OS/390
Extend IMS and CICS transactions to Oracle CICS Manager SQL*Net
Oracle SQL in IMS and CICS applications
Pro*COBOL, Pro*PL1, Pro*C/C++ UNIX
NT
IMS and CICS users access Oracle data
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 Oracle Transparent Gateway for DB2

DB2

SQL*Net

Oracle Client Oracle on Oracle for

UNIX or NT OS/390

Oracle
Allow Oracle Clients access to DB2 Gateway
OS/390 DB2
Mainframe data available through SQL*Net for DB2
SQL*Net

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 Transparent Gateway EDA/SQL

VSAM
IMS/DB
CA-IDMS
SQL*Net
ADABAS
CA-Datacom
Oracle Client Model 204
Oracle on Oracle for
etc...
UNIX or NT OS/390

Oracle
Gateway MVS
OS/390
Oracle clients access to MVS data EDA/SQL Data
SQL*Net
Easy access to non-relational data
Mainframe available through SQL*Net
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 Oracle Replication Services

Access to updated, consolidated information

Oracle8

DB2 Oracle8

UNIX
IMS/DB Windows

Automated replication between Oracle and other data sources

Transfer incremental changes, bi-directional replication
Oracle to/from DB2 and IMS/DB requires IBM DataPropagator
Single view of replication environment ®
Oracle Gateway Solutions

Oracle
Procedural
Gateways
Oracle Mainframe
Applications Applications

Oracle Oracle
Transparent Access
Gateways Managers

Oracle Mainframe
Data Data
Oracle Replication
Services
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Mainframe Integration Products

A complete set of products to integrate non-Oracle data

and transaction managers with Oracle systems.
• Transparent Gateway for DB2
• Transparent Gateway for EDA/SQL
• Transparent Gateway for DRDA (4 ports)
• Transparent Gateway for DB2/400
• Procedural Gateway for APPC (4 ports)
• Procedural Gateway for MQSeries (4 ports)
• Oracle Access Manager for CICS
• Oracle Access Manager for IMS
• Oracle Replication Services
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 Oracle for Server Consolidation

“… Oracle for OS/390 is the easiest way

to move an Oracle based application to
OS/390”

IBM S/390 Bulletin, #25, August 1999

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 Oracle is Oracle is Oracle ...

• Database is portable across operating systems

– The same product regardless of operating system
– from Windows 95/98 to NT to UNIX to OS/390
– Available for OS/390 3 to 6 months after UNIX
• Same SQL regardless of database platform
• Application code written in PL/SQL is portable
– Triggers and Procedures
– Run applications in the database
• Data is portable via export/import
– no EBCDIC/ASCII character set issues
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 Data Migration Considerations

Migrate data to mainframe Oracle

• Import/Export from Oracle on UNIX and NT
– Manages character set conversion
– SQL*Loader
• Tools to convert a variety of sources
– VSAM, IMS/DB, DB2, and other relational
– CA-Datacom, Adabas, CA-IDMS, Model 204, etc...
– Oracle’s EDMS, SmartDB, others

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Application Migration Considerations

Depends on application environment

• PL/SQL applications port directly to mainframe
– Oracle procedural extensions to SQL
– Complete application environment
• Mainframe applications
– Oracle Precompilers
– Pro*Cobol, Pro*PL1, Pro*C
– Add Oracle SQL to traditional applications
• UNIX and NT applications
– Oracle Precompilers
– Run under OS/390 UNIX System
– Must be aware of character set differences
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 Oracle Applications for OS/390
Market Management
Sales & Marketing
Sales Compensation
Customer Service Product Development
Service Engineering
Bills of Material
Order Fulfillment
Order Entry Operations Purchasing
Inventory Quality
Master Scheduling/ Cost
MRP Management
Capacity
Human Resources
Human Resources Work in Process
Payroll

Finance & Administration

General Ledger Information Technology
Fixed Assets Workflow
Accounts Payable Alert
Purchasing Business Analyzer
Accounts Receivable EDI gateway
Project Billing Internet Commerce
Project Costing ®
 Oracle Applications for OS/390

• Full suite of Oracle Applications on OS/390

• Cooperative benchmarks with IBM
– Sept. 1996, Poughkeepsie, NY
– April 1997, Montpelier, France
– Summer 1998, Gaithersburg, MD
– April 1999, Gaithersburg, MD
– May 2000, Montpelier, France
• Demonstrate proof of concepts
• Demonstrate scalability
• Generate sizing information
• Demonstrate performance
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 Commitment At All Levels

In a recent interview, Ray Lane told VarBusiness:

“… with Oracle8, there’s no question we

have a very viable database environment for
the mainframe environment or large UNIX
clusters…we are putting a lot into the MVS
platform”

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The dinosaurs are back and
they’re mad as hell

from a poster at
IBM’s Poughkeepsie
Mainframe Lab