RE: Couple more newbie questions.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:39 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Couple more newbie questions.

Rob - serious thought here for once - does John really NEED to learn
DDS? At least for tables and all? Might he not actually be able to go
the SQL route? He may already know Query Management, which is part of
mainframes, I believe. Those would give him formatted printed output
without printer files. And there is the CICS product - that'd
give him
screens.

Given that I am not likely to survive the conversion from "z" to "i",
and that our current DBAs will likely be tasked with creating the file
definations on the "i", I would guess that SQL would be preferred by
them to using the "i" specific DDS. Unless there is something that DDS
can do which SQL cannot.

Or they might go completely to web-based interfaces.

I would think so.

Modernize? Eh? What say?

OK - back to my corner

Vern

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