HEMMAT@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (M. Hemmat) (09/29/90)
I am very much interested to see if any of you have installed or plan
to install/build a REPOSITORY (data dictionary, encyclopedia) at your
telecommunications organization, and if so:
- What platforms it is or will be built on?
(e.g.; Bachman, Brownstone's Data Solution, DBEXCEL,
Maestro, etc.)
- Is it a central or distributed repository?
- What is/are the host computer(s)?
(e.g.; IBM, DEC, etc.)
- How useful and reliable it turned out to be?
- How long have you been using it?
- What were/are your main concerns/problems?
- Do you have a migration plan to the IBM's AD/Cycle and Repository
Manager?
- and any other comments you may have?
What is a repository? A repository is a way to save, acquire,
maintain, model, share, query, manage, standardize, verify, compare,
define, identify, structure, and restructure information about
information. A repository is a central storage facility, a host-
workstation communication facility; it is a translator; it is a set of
standards. A repository is a single point of control for your
APPLICATION LIFE-CYCLE. It is an amalgam of programs and DASD, of
hardware and protocols that can run on various platforms and
communicate with sundry software products from multiple vendors.
[From Solution Space, An IBM I/S Management Institute publication,
April, 1990]
Please reply by e-mail, and I'll try to post a summary of replies.
Thanks.
M. Hemmat Hemmat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (internet) Hemmat@ukanvax (bitnet)