Re: Is anyone using ILE?

["Joe Teff" <jteff19@xxxxxxx>]

Although I have never been in a shop yet that has SQL, the rest of Hank's 
statement holds true for the shops I've been in. This includes employees and 
consultants. Very few "coders" go to Common or even their local user group 
meetings. Most will not even subscribe to a trade magazine.

Joe Teff
QDS
Bloomington, MN
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> The answers to these are obvious in view of the first answer. One point that
> I want to add is that the "progressive" shops in Philadelphia are just 
>starting
> to embrace embedded SQL in their RPG and COBOL programs. Of course,
> these same shops are running on V3R1 or - begrudgingly - V3R2. This is not to
> say the Philadelphia is a backwater by any means. The shops that I have
> visited are battle weary. They have been beaten up so solidly by bleeding
> edge technology that they are happy to follow a couple of years behind the
> current leading edge to see what shakes out.
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