Re: DDS Support

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

James,

At 6/27/00 10:24 AM -0700, you wrote:
>I, too, like the functionality of DDS.  What I am proposing is that with
>your own methods you are no longer restricted or at the mercy of the
>platform provider.  I learned a long time ago not to wait for IBM to
>provide every slick method known to man kind and also I've learned that
>IBM can pull the plug at any time they feel like it.

  Since IBM is the (only) DB provider on the /400 and data definition is an 
integral part of a DB, I think that this is a case that we should insist 
that IBM do the sensible thing for their customers, not just the direction 
du jour.

  Out of curiosity, would you have the same opinion if we were talking 
about replacing CL with REXX?


>BTW, if you -do- have to change the underlying DB (and at some time you
>undoubtedly will), with the appropriate tool you can create new DDS and
>new SQL and a conversion program when CHGPF or CPYF *MAP *DROP won't do
>the job for you.

  When is this the case?

  -mark
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