Re: Questions about books, publications and groups dealing with DB2/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Paul Conte writes good books. I've learned a lot from them. I can recommend
his stuff.

IDUG isn't well embraced by DB2/400. :) Actually, I've never heard of IDUG
until this email...but then again, I'm not running DB2 on mainframes or LUW.

On 5/5/05 05:26 PM, "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Does anyone know of Paul Conte?  Does anyone have any opinions on his
> publication on DB2/400?    Are there any other well written publications
> about DB2/400 (not the native flat file(non-relational) structure used
> by most iSeries folks)?  Any other good publications on DB2/400(again,
> DB2 using DDL & DML, not flat-file(non-relational) DDS)?
> 
> Is DB2/400 still not well embraced by IDUG?   Anyone know why?  Is that
> because it and its members doesn't see DB2/400 as a real version of DB2
> or because there are not enough DB2 RDBMS  applications on the AS/400
> like on the other IBM platforms or is it because there is no real AS/400
> community effort to convince IDUG the AS/400 is a viable DB2 platform
> or what?  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave Odom

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