Re: members

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:46 PM 9/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Someone said the other day that members are dead.  IBM has seen that no
one else is going down the members road, so they are pulling back and
offering no further support beyond what we see right now.
>
>Does this fit with what others have heard?   

The multi-membered concept was a System/38 invention, and has proven
awkward to use, easy to mess up in production.  IBM could have just backed
off of this as being strategic, but there were two problems:

1.      SQL (as first developed off of the System/38 - AS/400) did not address
multi-members as a strategy.
2.      System/38 - AS/400 heavily embraced multi-members for source.  

SQL will likely never embrace multi-members.  IBM is not doing anything in
the database that not addressed by SQL, and (IMHO very foolishly) starting
to implement some new features only through SQL!

I have addressed on many occasions with IBM on the concept of
re-architecting source files into a different animal, but there are very
many complications.  Keep in mind that sources files can be updated from
many other places than SEU/SDA/RLU and TM/38; any HLL program can process
source files!

Al



Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting, LLC.  
400 > 390

Phone:  914-251-9400
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