RE: Help with capturing errors codes in .ASP code talking

> From: Dave Odom
> 
> ALL data files, I can think of, that are not DB2 relational tables(DB2
> on MVS, VM, VSE or UDB, for sure) or hierarchical files such as IMS or
> network architecture files(what was it IDMS), or Partitioned Data
> Sets(AS/400 uses something like this SOMETIMES), are flat files. This
> regardless if they were created with DDS, are one big record in
> structure or what have you.

What makes a DB2 relational table different from a physical file in DDS?

Also, it seems to me that while relational tables are supposed to be
totally independent of the physical database, most relational databases
store things in files, and for performance they use indexes just like
ISAM databases.

To me, there is more in common between OS/2 DDS-based files and
relational tables than there are differences.  The biggest single
difference is in the query engine, and how well that works really
depends on how well tuned and tweaked your database is.

Joe