Re: Doohickey to visually show relationships between files

In a message dated 6/30/2004 5:15:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: 
> Jack,
> 
> DSPFD, DSPFFD and DSPDBR are all fine and dandy when you want to know
> something about a single table, but when you want to know about the
> relationships _between_ tables, you need something more. 
> 
> Perhaps you can keep all the relationships in you head, but on systems
> with several thousand tables I know I don't recall them all. To be able
> to select a single table and see all the "related" tables is invaluable.
> Add to that the ability to select table A and table F and visually see
> the way to get from A to F is great!
> 
> DSPFD, FFD and DBR are great tools, but the world has evolved, it's time
> for the iSeries community to do the same. 
> 
Walden,
You are 100% correct with regards to the iSeries needing to evolve but I 
think the members of our community would get more results aiming there efforts 
at 
IBM to make them require or better allow for any file relationships to be 
defined within the context of the DDS or now the SQL definitions rather then 
leaping onto the Microsoft band wagon to solve our problems.

The concepts of a schema have been around for a very long time so all we have 
got to do together is push IBM off of the "seat down the hall"

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.
Marietta, GA