Picture Support in the Database (was: Re: Ebay...)

At 05:50 PM 7/8/99 -0500, you wrote:

Hi,

Picture support is coming.

IBM lied to us when they told us that there would only be one release in 
1999.  They were (rightly so) afraid that users would rebel if they got a 
new release to put on in the last half of the year.

So as to not create a commotion, the next "release" (I call it a release 
because it will cause database incompatibilities) will be supplied by PTF 
in the late third quarter.  It will allow us to store pictures and other 
"small" files in AS/400 data fields, with references to bigger pictures 
(e.g.: AVIs) as references to the IFS.

Because the brain-dead people at IBM feel that the holy grail of the world 
is SQL, you will only be able to define these functions through SQL.  If 
you save a database containing these features, you will not be able to 
restore it to another V4R4 system unless it has the same PTFs.  (Sounds 
like a new release to me.  I suggested to IBM that they call this new 
function V4R4M1, and my suggestions were disregarded.

Al


>Why wouldn't the AS/400 work with all the pictures?  They would be stored 
>in a directory accessed by reference from the database.
>
>Also, doesn't V4R4 handle objects like JPGs?
>---Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:   Peter H. O'Connor [SMTP:PHOC@compuserve.com]
>Sent:   Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:33 PM
>To:     INTERNET:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:        Re: The Magic Box
>
>Bob
>
>IBM should give ebay a box free and write it off to advertising.  But IBM
>has to get DB2 to work with all of those pictures on ebay.
>
>Peter H. O'Connor
>www.paeinc.com
>978-744-8612



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