RE: Couple more newbie questions.

When developing brand new software, it can make sense to use the latest
greatest tchniques.

Tons of legacy software comes using older techniques.
If you wish to maintain it, you have to be cognizant of its methodologies.

The "i" can support some file organization contents that SQL cannot access,
so if you have those legacy objects, you need to know more than SQL.

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:15:46 -0600, McKown, John wrote

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vern Hamberg
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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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