Re: What do you use "IBM Data Studio" for?

[Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess I need to try and remember Data Studio.  I usually use SQL Workbench/J (mostly for the save as XLS* formats), although I do fall back to STRSQL for a quick inquiry.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
 
  
  
    




From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 5:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: What do you use "IBM Data Studio" for?
    
I have found it to be as you say - we already have the Data perspective
in RDi. Data Studio has some knowledge of IBM i objects for database, 
but I believe only in an SQL kind of way.

That's probably good enough for some stuff. I just never found it gave 
me what I was used to in Navigator.

Some people use Squirrel, others use QuantumDB - both are SQLish (I 
don't mean SQL Server, I mean the technology that is SQL).  :)

The database component of the thick Navigator was really useful, 
although it's not where I ever spent major development effort time.

I'm finding the ability to test SQL statements from RDi using the 
statement runner is really useful - that will probably become my 
most-used way of working, even more than STRSQL!!

HTH
Vern

On 12/2/2016 7:00 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> I hear people talk about IBM Data Studio, so I finally installed it.  I've played with it for a while, and I confess that I don't get it.  It seems to be more trouble than it's worth, so I'm wondering why other people use it.  Why use Data Studio instead  of something else like iNav?
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> Thanks