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--- "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > LOL! Yeah, it took me about 3 hours to come up with a good name. You > wouldn't believe how many names are already taken. It was a Saturday and I > was supposed to be mowing my lawn but instead I was inside programming and > all I could think of was my neighbor yelling at me "Mow Your Lawn!!" I > realized there could be no better name for my site:-) That was along the lines of what I was imagining. <g> > >Is this an open-source project? > Yeah, but I am finding that doesn't mean a whole lot. Of the other two open > source projects I have out there (RPGMail and RPG XML Parser) I have pretty > much gotten zero help from the outside world. It would be nice if I could > get some help, <snip> FWIW, all of the open-source stuff I've seen is (way) over my head. I suspect that might be true for most AS/400 programmers. Additionally, when it comes to XML, I believe most AS/400 shops aren't "thinking outside of the box". So, XML's utility may not be readily apparent to most of the community. If you look at another AS/400-based open source project, Linux5250, that seems to have quite a bit of participation. I looked at that one, too, awhile back, but I was limited to testing what they offered. > If you have specific requirements for a tool like DB2XML please email them > to DB2XML@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and I will work them in as best I can. As of > right now my requirements list is based on what I think should be in it so > it might be kinda narrow minded:-) > > Does anybody else see a need for this in their company? One obvious > advantage is that you can get at any remote or local database via XML. It > could save you from writing a ton of web services to output file > information. When I saw the example, I thought of the remote clients that we support and how most of them do not have DBU or a similar file utility. So, I see alot of potential there. I've only been here a few weeks now, still getting my feet wet, but I know one of my colleagues has been working on some of the bleeding edge stuff <g> like CGI in RPG, so I threw your web site at him ("Huh? Mow your lawn?" "Trust me") I didn't have a lot of time to discuss the potential applications with him (that will come later), but he read through the whole db2xml page. One question: Is the XML output going to be limited to 32K? (I.e.: D xml S 32767A ) GA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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