Re: JDBC equivalent to RPG SETLL or CHAIN?

Are you saying that you can't see why they would want to bring data in from another database ?

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message: 8
date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:47:21 -0700
from: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: JDBC equivalent to RPG SETLL or CHAIN?

On 7/1/13 1:48 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:

If you really must, you can use the record-level access classes of
JT400 such as com.ibm.as400.access.KeyedFile. This is *NOT* JDBC, of
course.

Except that accessing DB2/400 via a JDBC connection, through Scott's
JDBCR4 interface, is an act of "carrying coals to Newcastle," and useful only in the very early development stage. The object is not to write a Java program to access DB2/400, but rather to use JDBC calls sent through JDBCR4 to access databases (most likely NOT DB2/400) on other boxes.

I've made no secret of the fact that I personally can't imagine why anybody would want such a singularly useless capability in the first place, or why our competitors have bothered with adding that capability to their product, and yet we've actually had requests for it.

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JHHL