Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting?

Jim

As a fairlyl recent SEQUEL customer/user, I must counter this - you CAN use either SEQUEL's syntax (yes, it has differences from native) or native IBM i SQL syntax.

And the latter is fully compliant and will use the new query engine.

Beyond that I can't say that much - I really like what the product gives us already and have barely scratched the surface.

I had always felt that SEQUEL was an odd duck of sorts - different syntax, CL commands used for each type of SQL statement - that is still there, but it's much more, I think.

Cheers
Vern

On 1/22/2015 5:38 PM, Jim It wrote:

Everybody's forgetting about SEQUEL. Everything that's been discussed is
available, and there's no programming involved if you don't want to deal
with that.

And with the SEQUEL product you can pretty much forget about creating an efficient SQL statement which fully optimizes the query engine. The SEQUEL product does not use compliant SQL statements and cannot accept many, many features available to the DB2 for i query engine. This includes the latest versions of SEQUEL.
It is much better to be able to write native SQL statements and consume them with whatever product you want. (as long as it's not SEQUEL.)
Jim