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  3. July 2008

Re: Modernization and multi-member files

Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
so basically in a nutshell you're saying that using any programming language or method that *isn't* SQL is a "back door"....sounds kinda odd to me.
It's complete BS, Tommy.

Dave can't answer my question, so he parrots something that he can't even defend. I brought this issue up well over a year ago, and Dave couldn't answer it then either.

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200702/msg01280.html

Note that I ask him to define "back door" and how DB2's ISAM access is a back door as opposed to a vendor-specific extension like other RDBMS's have. He cannot.

Joe

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