Re: can this reject bad data? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: can this reject bad data?
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:10:43 -0400
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Without wanting to be drawn in the debate between SQL vs RPG (both has
their merits and, IMHO, its use depends on your business needs)

Luis, there's no debate about SQL in general versus RPG in general.
There is (well, was, hopefully over now) discussion about a *specific*
piece of SQL code, used for accomplishing a *specific* task, and
whether that was better than using RPG *for the same specific task*.

Although idate (Rob's suggestion, I believe) is a wonderful UDF [...]

Steve already mentioned that they don't have it, and installing it
would be difficult and time-consuming, due to procedural/political
issues.

John

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