Re: [WDSCI-L] VisualAge RPG and DB2 Personal (Developer's) Edition

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well shoot me in the head! <LOL> Yup, that sure sounds like the answer
should be yes... 

I've never loaded the VA RPG... but I have a lot of different flavors of
DB2 here...


On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 02:30, Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Strange, in the VisualAge RPG Language Reference Chapter 7 "SQL support" 
> it is said that
> 
> The VisualAge RPG embedded SQL support differs from most other 
> implementations in that there is no separate precompiler for creating the 
> intermediate file which is then compiled. The embedded SQL statements are 
> handled during the compile step of the build process. 
> 
> Your application can be built to use local databases, databases on other 
> workstation nodes, or databases on other iSeries servers. Any differences 
> in the level of SQL supported on these other systems are overlooked with 
> the level of SQL supported on the workstation where the build is 
> performed. Only the syntax supported by DB2 on the build-time workstation 
> is allowed.

> I understood this as if VARPG can access DB2 P(D)E.  Or is a "local 
> database" not exactly that?

Yes, it definitely is.