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  3. July 2008

Re: Modernization and multi-member files

Dave Odom wrote:
SQL can be used in most any modern programming language so there's no
problem unless you insist unless your RDBMs allows back door access
methods like i5/ISAM (I use that to differentate because the same is
not also true of MVS nor VM ISAM and their DB2s), such as READ,
CHAIN, etc.

The availability of SQL access is neither a sufficient condition for a database system to be relational, nor a necessary one.

The same can also be said for the lack of availability of other forms of access.


I know it sounds odd because the i5 world has never been oriented to
truly relational.

You seem to be the only one here with that opinion. And if anybody outside the OS/400 world looks askance at the OS/400 implementation of DB2, the most likely explanation that comes to my mind is that their implementations aren't built into the operating system, much less into the licensed internal code.


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