Re: DDS Support (Re: NT web server access to AS400) -- MIDRANGE-L

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> Clearly DDS is no longer strategic to IBM.  They want everybody to go with
> SQL for file definition, which IMHO is brain dead.

Do you refer to SQL or the strategic direction as being brain dead?

> SQL does not support all of the features of DDS.  AS/400 databases contain
> many less database design errors than other databases, due to the
existence
> of the RLDREF keyword.

I'm kinda curious how they will equivalence the SrcFile parameter for the
ChgPF command utilizing SQL?

Bill


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