Re: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400

David,

What's the problem here?  OPNQRYF not receiving the latest updates?  Good 
riddance to bad rubbish, I say.  SQL is _FAR_ more intuitive...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." -- Steven Wright

In a message dated 10/26/00 3:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ddunfie@net-link.net writes:

> I received this e-mail from IBM today. It raises some real concerns for the
>  future if the Iseries.
>  
>  IBM values your input on the design and direction of DB2 UDB for
>  AS/400.
>  
>  For some time now, SQL has been the strategic interface for the
>  industry and the AS/400 database, DB2 UDB for AS/400. As such,
>  IBM has focused the database investment on SQL and has made
>  some new database  functionality  (e.g.,  BLOBs, ROUND &
>  DAYOFWEEK scalar functions,  Derived Tables, etc)  available
>  only on SQL interfaces.   As a result, non-SQL interfaces such as
>  OPNQRYF were not enhanced to access these new database features.
>  Although it's not a common practice,  native opens (OPNQRYF,
>  OPNDBF, high-level language opens) currently can reference most
>  SQL Views  (an SQL View is just a logical file),  so it is possible to
>  create an SQL View that uses some of the newer database
>  functionality and then have native open reference that SQL View to
>  access these newer features.
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