Re: Questions about books, publications and groups dealing with DB2/400

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul is largely responsible for the existence of free format RPG. He did 
it 10 years ago (at least) in spite of IBM. If he hadn't we'd still be 
coding in columns today. Smart guy, but a zealot regarding programming 
style. I've learned a lot from him over the years. I don't know him 
personally.

Pete Hall
http://www.pbhall.us/



Dave Odom wrote:

> Does anyone know of Paul Conte?  Does anyone have any opinions on his
> publication on DB2/400?    Are there any other well written publications
> about DB2/400 (not the native flat file(non-relational) structure used
> by most iSeries folks)?  Any other good publications on DB2/400(again,
> DB2 using DDL & DML, not flat-file(non-relational) DDS)?    
>
> Is DB2/400 still not well embraced by IDUG?   Anyone know why?  Is that
> because it and its members doesn't see DB2/400 as a real version of DB2
> or because there are not enough DB2 RDBMS  applications on the AS/400
> like on the other IBM platforms or is it because there is no real AS/400
> community effort to convince IDUG the AS/400 is a viable DB2 platform 
> or what?  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Odom
>