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And how will those improvements help us?!

We haven't had a project where I said "gee, I really wish I had derived indexes." Indeed, I wasn't really having any trouble with SQL performance.

Full text indexing? Not sure what I'd use that for.

Web Query... yawn.

RPG enhancements /are/ useful to us... large string sizes would be great. But I can work around that easily enough, and my boss sure doesn't understand it. (He programmed in RPG III, and almost never hit the 256 char limitation. He can't conceive of problems with a 65535 limitation.) %SCANRPL would be convenient, but can easily be replaced by %SCAN/%REPLACE. We don't plan to write anything that uses threads -- though, if we did, we could write it in C or Java (Though, I'm excited at the prospect of playing with it in RPG) Files in subprocedures would be nice, but we've been successfully working around them for a long time, and my boss doesn't even understand why we need subprocedures to begin with. Sorting qualified DSes is great... but qsort() works, too.

I'm excited about having these new RPG features.. I want them. But it's really hard to justify to management. It would be SOOOO much easier if RDP didn't cost extra, though.


On 2/18/2011 7:14 AM, Charles Wilt wrote:
Guess that depends on what you're doing.

Lots of SQL improvements, such as derived indexes
Built in support for full text indexing.
Web Query
RPG enhancements

I see benefits for any size company...

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