Re: Blobs - Now is Field Reference File

[Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

At 11:21 AM 8/31/99 -0400, you wrote:

>>  How would you handle distributions to clients, ensuring that a global
>> definition is maintained and does not clash w/ an existing definition?

>You would need unique names. Prefixing comes to mind.

 

>This was in a previous response. You get a message about the UDF
>existing. You could create a new UDF and then change the files, or if
>the entire thing is scripted, just run the scripts.

  As in SQL scripts?  Sorry about the duplication, I was a day behind and
it kinda crossed in the mail.


>What I am not clear on is IBM's intent on the UDFs. If they allow the
>qualification of the UDF to the schema name (library) then we should be
>able to change the UDFs at will. If not........

 If it's completely global, then that's a large potential problem, since
software vendors couldn't really take advantage of it.  Plus, from a
definition standpoint it doesn't really make much sense either.
LARGE_AMOUNT may mean one thing to one application and something totally
different to another.

 BTW, is this in V4R4 only?  How are the UDB features manipulated / viewed,
etc?  Will there be a native implementation?

 -mark

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