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At 1/7/03 09:52 PM, you wrote:
>   IBM telling us that they'll do something doesn't make it a good
> decision.  So, yes, it *is* IBM's fault.

Only if you believe it is a fault to comply with standards. Standards that
IBM created and helped build. SQL came from IBM, not someplace else.
In the IBM Midrange world DDS is the standard. Having SQL there for compatibility sake for the rest of the world is moving the box in the right direction. This is similar to adding Java to the box and forcing us to abandon our current development language, just because it's the "new world standard."


>   That only "proves" how (relatively) easy it would be to add the
> functionality to DDS.  And on the outside chance that there's some
function
> that would not be practical syntactically to add to DDS, how
> difficult  would it be do add embedded SQL to DDS??


Indeed it does NOT prove any such thing. Difficult or not, there is a cost.
Complying with standards and then retrofitting a single, obscure (to the
rest of the world) fixed format, definition language simply adds to the cost
of producing the database which adds to the cost of the machine. SQL has to
be done. DDS does not. So DDS is finished.

And we all know how short the pockets are for buying things in the 400
world. Why ask for a higher priced box?
By eliminating DDS (from a practical standpoint) you've now shifted the cost of redevelopment onto the customer anyway, so we pay either way! I think that it would cost us a lot less for IBM to make the enhancements than for us to have to redevelop major systems. JMHO.

-mark


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