Update / Insert / Delete of Join Views. Is that coming?

Tom Liotta replied (tangentially) in a post on a recent thread about some
enhancements coming in DB2 on other platforms.  Namely Update / Insert /
Delete on Join views.

Thought I repost it here in case some were automatically forwarding that
thread into the ash can.

Here's Tom's comments:

Off on a tangent, I swear another post referred to the inability of DB2/400
(yeah, I know... the name... but I don't care) to update JOIN views. Maybe
ten years ago, I think at COMMON, I saw a presentation that described the
technical obstacles that had to be overcome in order to make it possible. I
never questioned the problem again.

However, things are slowly beginning to change. Two articles related to the
idea:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0209rielau/0209rielau.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I27224E57
and
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0210rielau/0210rielau.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W26212E57

For everyone, if you don't nose around out in places like developerWorks
every once in a while, search on topics, etc., you can't know what you're
missing.

Tom Liotta