RE: news400 goes negative on IBM?

> From: Carel Teijgeler
> 
> Because that latter is not a real simple possibility, the AS/40 is not
> that open, at all.

Carel (and others), the fact that RPG does not natively access other
databases has no bearing on how "open" the platform is.  RPG is
primarily designed to allow "below the hood" access to iSeries data.  To
ask it to do anything else natively is a little silly, especially when I
can:

1. Call another program to do it.

2. Call a Java method to do it.

3. Write a SPECIAL file exit to do it.

Now, where open-ness comes into play is whether each database has a Type
4 JDBC driver.  If they do, then I can access them from any Java
program.  If not, they aren't open, but it's no fault of the iSeries.

Joe