Re: Early Client Server on the AS/400

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My point was more that DDM is unfairly blamed as slow when the real problem 
>is generally elsewhere.
> Usually whith the programmer of the application -- although not much can be 
>done if the communication
> line speed is simply too slow.  A lot of programming stupidities are masked 
>by local data access.
> Remote data tends to highlight those flaws and then the tool is blamed rather 
>than the worker.
>
> Your original comments implied that the entire file needs to be transmitted 
>to the source system which
> isn't true.  That's really what I wanted to clear up.

really.  i didn't know that.

but how?   for example, in our application, there is a chain to a 250 byte file 
to get a 4 digit catagory
code.  since the application is running on the source system, how do you just 
get from the target the data you
want, without transmitting the entire file?  i haven't looked at ddm for some 
time, but i didn't think that
was something you could control.

nj

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