RE: DB2/400 comparisons with other relational databases (specifically Oracle and SQL Server)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com
>
> 1)  I don't take grief.  I see a problem - I report it.
> 2)  Maybe we push the envelope a little harder.  More data, different
> applications, more sql.

I don't take grief, either.  I just don't seem to run into the problems you
do.  And I was the Manager of Architecture for the world's largest AS/400
software company - we pushed the envelope, too.  BPCS, AS/SET and AS/NET
definitely used some of the more advanced features of the AS/400, but that
was a while ago.

Since then, I've never had a problem other than one time getting TCP/IP to
work (which turned out to be a firewall configuration error, not the
AS/400's fault), and one time the machine threw a disk drive and kept trying
to tell me for nearly a month until I finally looked at the QSYSOPR message
queue.  I called IBM and they had replaced the drive within one day (4
business hours).

Then again, I don't do a lot of SQL, so that may be a difference.

> But heck, I can remember when the AS/400
> RPG had a
> one file limitation.

Uhm.  When was this?  Don't seem to remember that.  We ported BPCS from a
S/38 to a Silverlake (pre-release AS/400) and I don't rememeber that
particular shortcoming - it would have played havoc with BPCS, I can assure
you <grin>.