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Hate to be a bore on the subject, but not everyone works in a shop that has
the full SQL package. Personally, I'd love to have SQL available.
The usual management arguments against buying the full package are:
We're doing fine without it and it costs too much.
No one here understands how to use it.
It's a real performance hog.
I know it would help me do some things more easily, and I would enjoy
learning to use it. BTW, I have campaigned for it and I'm stil working on
it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 7:36 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400
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> Gee, I code RPG, I've used SQL in my RPG. I didn't have a
> gun pointed to
> my head telling me to do so.
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> Any others?
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> Rob Berendt
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> 10/27/00 06:33 AM
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> Native RPG access to DB2/400 is the issue. You will never
> convince me that
> a
> SQLRPGLE program is the way any RPG programmer would be the choice to
> access
> DB2.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of DAsmussen@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:26 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400
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> David,
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> What's the problem here? OPNQRYF not receiving the latest
> updates? Good
> riddance to bad rubbish, I say. SQL is _FAR_ more intuitive...
>
> JMHO,
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC USA
> E-mail: DAsmussen@aol.com
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> "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." --
> Steven Wright
>
> In a message dated 10/26/00 3:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ddunfie@net-link.net writes:
>
> > I received this e-mail from IBM today. It raises some real
> concerns for
> the
> > future if the Iseries.
> >
> > IBM values your input on the design and direction of DB2 UDB for
> > AS/400.
> >
> > For some time now, SQL has been the strategic interface for the
> > industry and the AS/400 database, DB2 UDB for AS/400. As such,
> > IBM has focused the database investment on SQL and has made
> > some new database functionality (e.g., BLOBs, ROUND &
> > DAYOFWEEK scalar functions, Derived Tables, etc) available
> > only on SQL interfaces. As a result, non-SQL interfaces such as
> > OPNQRYF were not enhanced to access these new database features.
> > Although it's not a common practice, native opens (OPNQRYF,
> > OPNDBF, high-level language opens) currently can reference most
> > SQL Views (an SQL View is just a logical file), so it is
> possible to
> > create an SQL View that uses some of the newer database
> > functionality and then have native open reference that SQL View to
> > access these newer features.
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