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On Wed, 12 September 2001, "Jerome Draper" wrote:

>
> that shows  in the 1996 / 1997 that IBM encouraged AS/400 programmers to use 
>SQL to access the database as opposed to native Read, Chain, etc. commands 
>within RPG.  As part of "open systems." Would you know where I could find such 
>a document?  maybe something published by IBM?  Or a magazine article?


Would it HAVE to be as late as 1996/7? I think it was pretty old news by then. 
Seems I recall much earlier that IBM chose not to include RPG as an SAA 
language and that was when the major public outcry first arose.

Tom Liotta

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