I'm not a DB2 guy, so everyone please forgive my ignorance on this. And yes, if it gets deep, I'll take it over to the DB2 list.
It's for a product solution for a customer, so I would like a certainty that it will work generically, not a "look at the pre-compile output and try it." No, I don't want to go V8 back to V7. No interest in that. I would expect that I could pre-compile, bind and link on Vn and run on V>n -- that's the beautiful standard MVS upward compatibility. I'm specifically concerned with pre-compiling on V7 and then BINDING, linking and running on V8. That's certainly upward compatibility, but it's also something of a special case. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Bell Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DB2 pre-compile V7 bind and run V8? yes - and it has always been that way. You do not have to recompile your programs just because you have a new DB2 release nor do you have to relink them. With V8, there is a suggestion that it is best to REBIND them, but that is still not a requirement. There are DB2 programs that have not been precompiled or compiled in a decade and still run. Yes the generated code (mostly the generated plist) has version identifiers in it and as far as I know, IBM will take an apar if the program doesn't work. Now if you want to precompile on V8 and run on V7, NO, that is not ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
