Re: Open Access for RPG

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Yeah, I realized that after a little more research...see my other post. :)

Charles

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry Charles - I have to completely disagree with you here.
>
> Unless you are performing set updates - not that common - most
> business applications still process a retrieved set a row at a time.
> Whether that be by retrieving the entire set as an array and then
> walking through it, or by using a cursor, or ...
>
> Why can the OAR handler not retrieve the set and then hand it back a
> row at a time in response to read requests?
>
> I know it will happen becuase the IBM Lab Services team already do
> this with SPECIAL files as part of their database modernization
> approach. OAR handlers are a natural and much simpler extension of
> that process.
>
>
> Jon Paris
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