Re: Are we insane? Unique use of native DB2

I think you might be mistaken. I remember it being new on the /400, sometime within the last decade or so (may be a little longer). Can't remember when.

Have a look at the REFACCPTH keyword in DDS for a LF...

Crispin.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Campin" <Alan.Campin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: Are we insane? Unique use of native DB2

<snip>
Many LFs each with an access path attached is bad and you are right,
before the days of the system automatically sharing an access path you
could kill a system real easy doing what we are doing but shared access
path has taken care of that.
</snip>

I started out on about Release 3 of the System 38 and it was sharing
access automatically going back that far. I suspect it was in there from
the beginning.

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