Re: Can I use DDS to create an SQL table name

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

The statement that there will no new development in DDS says nothing, 
seems to me, about dropping it completely.

On 10/24/2014 12:42 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I do not see IBM ever pulling the plug on DDS unless it becomes a serious
> OS migration.  Like S/36 to OS/400 serious.  But perhaps we differ on the
> definition of 'pulling the plug'.  SEU was both a good and a bad example.
> Good in the fact that, yes, IBM stopped enhancing it.  Bad in the fact
> that the languages that used to be supported by SEU are still evolving
> past SEU and you can no longer get syntax checking on much of those
> language features.  SEU was only an editor while RPG was a language.  It
> was SEU that stopped being enhanced, not the languages.  DDS would be more
> like the 'languages'.
> True, IBM has dropped some languages, like Fortran and Basic.  And has
> tried like H E double hockey sticks to drop S/36 compatible RPG.  And
> there's the rub.  If they can't even drop that, how will they ever drop
> DDS?
>
>
> Rob Berendt