RE: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400

Stubborn is as stubborn does.

Richard Jackson
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-|-----Original Message-----
-|From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
-|[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of David Dunfield
-|Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 5:33 AM
-|To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
-|Subject: RE: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400
-|
-|
-|Native RPG access to DB2/400 is the issue. You will never 
-|convince me that a
-|SQLRPGLE program is the way any RPG programmer would be the 
-|choice to access
-|DB2.
-|
-|-----Original Message-----
-|From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
-|[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of DAsmussen@aol.com
-|Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:26 AM
-|To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
-|Subject: Re: Survey for AS/400 Developers (ISERIES) DB2/400
-|
-|
-|David,
-|
-|What's the problem here?  OPNQRYF not receiving the latest updates?  Good
-|riddance to bad rubbish, I say.  SQL is _FAR_ more intuitive...
-|
-|JMHO,
-|
-|Dean Asmussen
-|Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
-|Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
-|E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
-|
-|"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." -- Steven Wright
-|
-|In a message dated 10/26/00 3:15:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
-|ddunfie@net-link.net writes:
-|
-|> I received this e-mail from IBM today. It raises some real concerns for
-|the
-|>  future if the Iseries.
-|>
-|>  IBM values your input on the design and direction of DB2 UDB for
-|>  AS/400.
-|>
-|>  For some time now, SQL has been the strategic interface for the
-|>  industry and the AS/400 database, DB2 UDB for AS/400. As such,
-|>  IBM has focused the database investment on SQL and has made
-|>  some new database  functionality  (e.g.,  BLOBs, ROUND &
-|>  DAYOFWEEK scalar functions,  Derived Tables, etc)  available
-|>  only on SQL interfaces.   As a result, non-SQL interfaces such as
-|>  OPNQRYF were not enhanced to access these new database features.
-|>  Although it's not a common practice,  native opens (OPNQRYF,
-|>  OPNDBF, high-level language opens) currently can reference most
-|>  SQL Views  (an SQL View is just a logical file),  so it is possible to
-|>  create an SQL View that uses some of the newer database
-|>  functionality and then have native open reference that SQL View to
-|>  access these newer features.
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