Re: Running SQL Workbench console from PASE

Whether rewrite is the right term seems less important that that IBM does not have to do ANYthing to the code, just compile it, as Buck said - find the make file, run it, ba-da-bing - yeah, I know, there's probably more than that, but not a wholesale mod.

The strategy is very cool - don't spend precious resources - time and people - on rewriting (adapting - modifying - forking - whatever) when it's all just there, ready to use as is.

They do make a point of being sure things run - that is, as I understand it, where the support comes in - the installation is made easier than what we have had to do in the past to get gcc and python and whatever else on the box. And IBM supports it - with PTFs for new options and for fixes to existing options.

Wunderbar!!

On 10/10/2015 9:08 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

The compiler in PASE - the C/C++ whose name I forget, just isn't good for
taking these open source things into PASE - with that compiler, IBM WOULD
have to modify source and rewrite all over the place.

In that YOUTUBE link to Tim Rowe's COMMON presentation which I posted
previously, he talks about THAT at about 13-15 minutes into the
presentation. He said the name of the "native" C compiler was XLC.

But what you're saying about the native C compiler forcing a "rewrite" is
pretty much confirmed. Actually "modifications" to the development
environment and code would be a better description than "rewrite".