RE: Logical File or OPNQRYF or any other way ? -Legacy iSeriesFlatFiles

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> So the iSeries database consists of 1 to many data stores that can be
> manipulated using relational constructs, but since the keys (primary
> and foreign) are not known to a governing entity, the iSeries database
> can't be identified as a RDBMS. Is that a fair statement?
> 

No the iSeries DBMS is an RDBMS.

It's just most databases implimented on it are not RDBs given the current 
meaning of the term.

You need to differenciate between the OS/RDBMS and the application/DBs runing 
on it.

Note that you could define a DB without relationships in Oracle or SQL server 
as easy as you can in DB2 for iSeries.  You just don't see that as often.


Charles