Re: DDS Support (Re: NT web server access to AS400)

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 04:03 PM 06/26/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> > Clearly DDS is no longer strategic to IBM.  They want everybody to go with
> > SQL for file definition, which IMHO is brain dead.
>
>Do you refer to SQL or the strategic direction as being brain dead?


As DDS provides higher programmer productivity, no longer enhancing DDS is 
brain dead.  SQL is not brain dead, and admittedly it's portable, but it's 
not as productive (for database implementation) as DDS.


> > SQL does not support all of the features of DDS.  AS/400 databases contain
> > many less database design errors than other databases, due to the
>existence
> > of the RLDREF keyword.
>
>I'm kinda curious how they will equivalence the SrcFile parameter for the
>ChgPF command utilizing SQL?

My take on this is that the CHGPF SRCFILE function is the equivalent of 
ALTERTABLE using DDS.




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