Using Oracle on the z/OS mainframe
738519Mar 17 2010 — edited Apr 2 2010All of my work so far with Oracle has been through the use of the SQL*Plus utility running on a z/OS V1R9 mainframe (we will be updating to V1R11 this year). I wanted to expand my understanding of Oracle a bit, and see how I can incorporate it into many of our daily processes. So, I contacted our Oracle DBA team and asked what my options are for writing programs that directly interact with Oracle.
The response I received was:
You should be aware that Oracle will no longer be developing on the mainframe - z/OS - for their product. Therefore, if you are trying to do self-training/learning, you probably should avoid the mainframe. With that said, I would highly suggest you use the unix environments for your learning.
Since I have no access to any unix environments other than the z/OS Unix System Services (USS) partition, am I going to have to stop my self-training? Is their response accurate?