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  • Subject: Re: LVLCHK *NO
  • From: Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:48:55 -0700
  • Organization: Conex Global Logistics Services, Inc.

Okay, lets look at dBase, Clipper, Foxpro, BTrieve, Access, am I leaving
any out?

I seem to recall that if I changed the layout of a database in any of those
languages I would not have to recompile unless I removed a field that was
being used in one of those programs.

The distinction is: those programming languages (and the underlying database
architecture) get the file layout from the file itself, not from an internal
declaration.
Which is how I was hoping RPG would do it.  RPG already has access to the
layout of the file at run time, does it not?  Yes, I understand it would take 
longer

at program initialization for RPG to retrieve the layout from the data base 
file.
And I understand that RPG is not doing that now, because it didn't in the past.
But, what is stopping it now?

Regards,

Jim Langston


pytel@us.ibm.com wrote:

> I see a kind of confusion here:
>
>      > Just about every other data base in the world does this but not the
> AS/400.
>
> AS/400 database is certainly doing this for you. Native I/O provides static
> database independence - you only have to recompile the program if you change 
>the
> file. It also provides tools to improve this independence - logical files 
>(more
> about it later).
> If you want dynamic database independence - AS/400 provides it via SQL
> interface.
> You should compare apples to apples - native Database Access should be 
>compared
> to native I/O for UNIX or NT - which is unformatted stream of bytes.
> If you compare AS/400 to Oracle, for example, then to be fair you should use
> OS/400 SQL for comparison.

<SNIP>

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