RE: Limiting QUSER DASD

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Using the referential constraints is something I hadn't thought of.  I can 
see how that could be useful for a tool like Crystal.  I am starting to 
see the light there.

Don't despair.  I, too, thought many people, (and packages) refuse to use 
it as a database.  Until I went to Mimix training and some of the 
customers there did say some of the packages are now starting to use 
constraints intensely.  Should have seen the printout from iNav of that 
relationship!

I still see packages though, that follow ancient instructions about not 
putting a key on a physical file because someone on a S/32 had an issue 
with it.  Give me a flipping break!  Then the same package would put a key 
on it in some logical and still not specify unique.  Which functions 
(barely) if you only use their applications to update the data.  But the 
first time you convert data from some other system or something you get 
duplicate keys all over the item master.

Rob Berendt