RE: File reorgs while file is in use - new in V5R3

What may be significant to me, may or may not be to you.  And some of the 
changes have nothing to do with utilities.  But I do remember walking 
around the COMMON expo wondering how some of those people will market 
their products in light of the upgrades available in V5R3.

Reorg while active is one of the biggest.  The 'pay' products marketing 
appeal may be the journalling requirement.  Seems that most iSeries 
developers love extra work and are loath to use anything built in like 
journalling, commitment control, referential integrity, etc.  (Yet these 
same people will knock Unix etc touting on how this is all built into DB2 
on the iSeries - strange.)

Some of the automatic tuning capabilities between lpars.  The 'pay' 
products have lots of marketing appeal left.  I forget which is not 
available free, (yet), but it might be memory.  And maybe timing too.  And 
maybe not requiring an HMC.  Which, while quite useful, is definitely in 
it's infancy.  I think it's biggest problem is that it started out on 
pSeries and those people are used to taking sh!t and us iSeries folks 
won't take it.  It's rapidly getting beaten into submission.

Some non utility enhancements that have me excited include that fact that 
the SQL preprocessor has been greatly enhanced.  It's not 100% yet but 
it's nice just to see life pumped into it.  In some ways, it's ahead of 
the RPG compiler.  Like the preprocessor has the capability to specify the 
target release.  Try to do that on a straight RPGLE compile in an H spec.

I wish there was a nice summary of every manuals "How this has changed in 
this release".



Rob Berendt
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / rob@xxxxxxxxx
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> Which brings up a good point.  There is so much in V5R3 that you used to
> shell out extra bucks for in utilities.
>
> Rob Berendt

Can you name some of them?  I think I got so excited about all of the CL
enhancements that I ignored everything else.

db

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