Re: DDS Support

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I, too, like the functionality of DDS.  What I am proposing is that with
your own methods you are no longer restricted or at the mercy of the
platform provider.  I learned a long time ago not to wait for IBM to
provide every slick method known to man kind and also I've learned that
IBM can pull the plug at any time they feel like it.  And I'm not
picking on IBM, I'm sure that's true for all other platform providers.

BTW, if you -do- have to change the underlying DB (and at some time you
undoubtedly will), with the appropriate tool you can create new DDS and
new SQL and a conversion program when CHGPF or CPYF *MAP *DROP won't do
the job for you.

"M. Lazarus" wrote:
> 
> James,
> 
> At 6/27/00 12:46 AM -0700, you wrote:
> 
> > >From there you can create DDS or SQL or I/O internally defined
> > specs or (gasp) IDDU.
> 
>  The reality is that we already have a stable, easy way to define our
> data. It's called DDS.
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