Re: Questions about books, publications and groups dealing with DB2/400

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I've purchased Paul Conte's book.  And it's cracked open on my desk now. 
An experienced As/400 person might be tempted to blow off chapter 1, but I 
wouldn't, there are a few hidden nuggets in there.  I read it like a book 
at first (mainly in the porcelain library) and use it as a reference now. 
There are some capabilities that are a little dated.  But they're always 
adding new features and functions to DB2/400.  "On a technical note, this 
edition is based on Version 4 of UDB/400..."..."At the time of 
publication, the current release was V4R5".

I've not looked at others books to do a comparison. 

Now, I've got someone who was an mechanical engineer but we hired as a 
programmer because his dad and brother worked out pretty good and said 
he's ok.  He learned SQL from IBM manuals and generates some mighty fine 
SQL.

Rob Berendt
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Questions about books, publications and groups dealing with DB2/400






Does anyone know of Paul Conte?  Does anyone have any opinions on his
publication on DB2/400?    Are there any other well written publications
about DB2/400 (not the native flat file(non-relational) structure used
by most iSeries folks)?  Any other good publications on DB2/400(again,
DB2 using DDL & DML, not flat-file(non-relational) DDS)? 

Is DB2/400 still not well embraced by IDUG?   Anyone know why?  Is that
because it and its members doesn't see DB2/400 as a real version of DB2
or because there are not enough DB2 RDBMS  applications on the AS/400
like on the other IBM platforms or is it because there is no real AS/400
community effort to convince IDUG the AS/400 is a viable DB2 platform 
or what? 
 
Thanks,

Dave Odom
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