RE: RPG and SQL Compilers

     Personally, I rather see an honest to goodness ODBC client for 
     RPGIV. If I had that, I could reach out to native and external data 
     sources for use in my applications. As ODBC uses the SQL interface, 
     it seems like a no-brainer to me. Dump the SQL precompiler and give 
     us ODBC access methods.
     
     Eric


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Subject: RE: RPG and SQL Compilers
Author:  "jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM" <SMTP:jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM> at EXCHANGE
Date:    1/2/01 8:03 PM


>As a relative SQL novice-newbie (recall some of my questions last 
month...),
>it seems to me that, if it is IBM's desire to move the AS/400 world away 
from
>DDS to SQL, as evidenced by news of support for new data types 
(functions?) in
>SQL that will not be supported in DDS, then IBM has a responsibility to 
enable
>full SQL support in RPG.
     
     
Dan Bale
     
Look at your "away from DDS to SQL"  comment.   Now imagine that the people 
that develop SQL believe that RPG is as about as modern as DDS and I think 
you will understand.
     
They (the DB development team) will not be "Focused"  on any enhancements 
to the native access methods(ie Chain, ReadE, etc).
     
How RPG works with SQL is,  we might say,  Not a High Priority thing. 
Now, ODBC, JDBC, SQL native functions are a high priority.   GUI control 
and management (ie Ops Nav, etc) is also high priority.
     
Remember what Jon said.   There are MANY IBM's.   It's NOT one company 
working together for the betterment of the whole with one clear vision for 
the future(for more than a week).
     
Now,  How does DB2 & SQL work with Linux?   I bet there is some focus 
there(and funding).
     
John Carr
     
     
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