Re: OPNQRYF fun

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

At 03:41 PM 4/15/99 -0700, you wrote:

Just to keep the record straight.  OPNQRYF was written by IBM as an
internal debugging tool for the development of SQL!

It was not in the original announcement of CPF Release 8.0, but was added
to the Release 8 content after the announcement.  (If memory serves me,
Release 8.0 was announced in the February time frame, and not available
until the late fall.  Times were different then...

IBM decoded that the power of this command was ready for the marketplace,
and made it available.

Al


>Rob Berendt wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, OPNQRYF is powerful.  But isn't it just for companies who are too
cheap to buy SQL?
>
>Nope... just a very poorly documented utility.. that goes back to the
>S/38...
>It "was" the original SQL... but so poorly documented, very few folks
>use
>it for anything other than basic selection and sort(which is a PIA)... I
>have seen(but not mastered) some very neat stuff done with the simple
>little
>command... Even the guy who came up with Qusrtool(Jim Sloan) developed a
>front end to make it easier to use. There have been entire books on this
>one single command,soooooo... too cheap to buy SQL.. I don't think so..
>
>If you can master this one command, you really have somthing to crow
>about.
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