LOL - yeah, those as/400 guys really know how to mangle table names - what was libdp000 again?
I do have to say that DB2/400 is solid as a rock though - I enjoyed using it (as long as I did not have to have a pc5250 screen to do so, the interactive environment was funky). Larry On 2/14/06, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Meadors wrote: > > The first "strategy" was to cache the entire world. That was a really > > bad idea because the database was around 800GB in size, and used by > > multilpe systems - a Java-based system, and about a zillion > > AS/400-based RPG programs. > > EEEEeeeewww... I'm sorry! :-) > > Yeah, my current project talks to DB2/AS400 and calls RPG as stored procs. > It's been > pretty much smooth sailing (well, smooth sailing in a rowboat when you have > to deal with > names like LQAPMST00...). > > The last Java shop to touch it did everything through RIOs, which looks like > it was a hell > of a lot more work. And I think we'll wind up being faster. > > Ibatis really rocks at this.... it's been a life-saver. > > b > > >
