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  • Subject: Re: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400
  • From: Lou Forlini <lforlini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:14:57 -0400

At 2:35 PM -0500 10/26/00, rob@dekko.com wrote:
>Makes sense to me.  Frankly I fail to see how most traditional languages
>will be able to access some new UDB features.  For instance what host
>variable type would an RPG program store a BLOB?
>
>It is not unreasonable to expect a view created that would ignore certain
>fields.  It is done all the time.  If the user wants to open the file in
>RPG and the field or function is not supported in RPG, then ignore that
>field or function from the view.  Very reasonable.
[snip]

    Except the way I read it is that if you use ANY new feature when 
you create the file, you can't open it natively at all:

    "However, if a new SQL view is created or an existing SQL View is 
recreated to use a new database feature delivered in a release after 
V4R5, the open will fail."

    It's bad enough that all of the "native" access has been frozen, 
now there will be files that you won't be able to open at all.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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