Re: Database I/O Modernization

<Nathan>
In the case of rlaColGet(), you WANT other programs to reference the same
open data path for improved performance. The only purpose of the function
is to return a data value. The file is opened for input only. Each
invocation of the function is stateless.
</Nathan>

that's a contradiction in itself. Having a look to the complete Thread and an article of itjungle - could it be, that you are a fabulist?

<Nathan>
The following link shows the RPG for a service program that encapsulates
database I/O.

It's essentially a template provided by Tembo Technologies as part of their
road-map and approach to application modernization. Tembo has promised an
open-source license.
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
"We are excited to collaborate with TEMBO as they distribute OnePoint Portal along with AO Foundation, as well
[as] to help educate IBM i shops on how to leverage the significant investments in their legacy applications,"
says Nathan Andelin, the CEO of Relational Tech.
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
What if the plan were to make the generator proprietary and charge
customers for it?
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
You keep asserting that the service program that I referenced in my
original post belongs to me. I have stated several times that it is not
mine. It doesn't belong to me. I wouldn't endorse it. I wouldn't use it. Is
that clear?
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
I didn't share my opinion right up front because I didn't want to bias
anyone, and I wanted to vet my own findings against the findings of others.
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
I've been using SQL views, paired with an RPG wrapper around SQL CLI in
most of our applications for about the past 15 years.
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
I will however post a link to a DB I/O service program that does belong to
me.

Procedure names that begin with "rla" are exported from an RPG wrapper
around C APIs that are exported from IBM's QC2IO service program.
</Nathan>
<Nathan>
My information comes from IBM publications. I don't want to take the time
to cite references because there are so many
</Nathan>