RE: Finding reporting officer

Thanks, I finally got the time to follow that link.

Thanks; that's amusing. To summarize: IBM is now (only recently) embracing
the CONNECT BY clause for recursion. The amusing part is that Oracle has
been supporting the CONNECT BY clause for a few years, and not until
recently (11g R2) did it allow the recursive CTE. Oracle users seem
ecstatic to learn that recursive CTE is at hand.

I don't know... just struck me as funny.

But as I mentioned before, we're at V5R3 and neither the recursive WITH
clause nor CONNECT BY will do me any good.

Dennis Lovelady
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This was just published this morning. It seems to address your issue.

TechTip: DB2's CONNECT BY Simplifies Recursive Processing
http://echo.bluehornet.com/ct/4809570:2317537725:m:1:65971428:466A6174D
0D31068DD7B0AD520760BC3:r



Paul Therrien
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If I followed this closely enough, and understand what you have, every
employee is in a file, and has a 'pointer' to his or her boss. And now
you need to point the UberBosses to a board member.

Could you just add the board members to the file, and point the
UberBosses to them? And flag the 'my boss' field for the board members
as *TOP or something like that?

You could then twist the 'BoardMembers' file around, and make it a
logical over the employee file selecting only those entries with *TOP...

Or have I missed something important?

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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