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

And, it's still cheaper than a programmer.

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 6:29 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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