Re: SQL vs DDS

Joe Teff wrote:
> 
> There are far too many companies that will not provide anything beyond
> what is included in ADTS. It's why tools like Code/400, CodeStudio and
> FlexEdit are only marginally used. A cross-reference tool like Hawkeye is
> fairly common and some sort of change management is becoming a little
> more common place. Why isn't the SQL product part of the ADTS? Raise
> the price of ADTS and include it. SQL will never become part of the
> "common" RPGers toolset until this happens.

Except that ADTS also provides, as options, Data Dictionary and
Application Development Manager, but most shops don't use them.

As for the include part, if you buy a machine today, there is a 'bundle'
of basic tools, discounted, that includes the SQL toolkit. And from the
standpoint of a model 170, if I remember correctly, the SQL toolkit
comes with it.

I think that as IBM adds more function to the SQL interface and promotes
it as the "only" interface, then inclusion with the machine will become
the norm.

The problem is the existing customers that won't upgrade their software
licences to include the toolkit.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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    It's the population that keeps growing!"
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