Why do mainframe greybeards refer to DB2/zOS as "he"? [closed]

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Published on 2010-04-16T22:05:56Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 22:13 UTC
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If you ask a DB2/zOS engine DBA a question about DB2's behavior, the DBA will refer to the DB2 engine as "he" much the way a sailor uses "she" to refer to his ship.

For example: "Once you fill the freespace, DB2 still wants to keep those rows in cluster order in the tablespace. That's why he'll split that page in half, and you end up with lots of half-empty pages. That is, unless the cluster key of the row you've just inserted is the highest in the table, in which case he makes a new empty page, and he puts just your new row into that page. So I wouldn't have to do this REORG if you would just sort your input like I suggested."

Does anyone know where this tradition comes from?

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