Tim and KMS,
In a message dated 98-02-07 12:15:13 EST, you write:
> think you are suffering from the old "bad advice" syndrom... If your S36
> Database is in an AS400 library (eg. QS36F), there is no reason in the
> world that you cannot define your files via DDS to the AS400 and begin
right
> now using the features of the AS400 that will make your life simple. Right
> now I am working at a company that has what would be considered an horrific
> database originally from from the S34---then---S36, this stuff shouldn't
> even be called a database. But we have DDS described files from this
> shameful S36 database and we are able to use them. As for ILE.....You'd
> better get moving in this direction now. And yes I have written several
> ILE RPG programs that access the S36 database, and you can to!
In the "old days" (ehhh, what did you say there sonny?), the /36 database was
fully accessable to the /400 with even DSPFFD if you externalized it with IDDU
(and linked it with IDDULINK). Is this still true with ILE?
TIA,
Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC USA
E-Mail: DAsmussen@aol.com
"Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have gotten many a man a good job." --
Herbert Harold Vreeland
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