Re: DB2 V8.2 versus V5R2

Hi,

Can you kindly be more specific? Most probably a line
of an example may be better.

Alex

--- "John S. Brumbelow" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Please help,
> 
> 	I am a developer trying to make software work on
> DB2 for the AS/400 V5R2. I have worked with DB2 on
> the AS/400 way back when it was V3R7, in 1997, and I
> swear, there is a HUGE difference between the DB2 on
> the AS/400 of V3R7, versus IBM's DB2 V8.2, which one
> can download today from IBM's website. And this
> gives me concern about developing for DB2, period,
> let alone V5R2 of the AS/400. Of particular change,
> is "semi-colons" and transaction handling. I can not
> remember for sure, for V3R7, but I swear the queries
> back then let one use "begin transaction", "commit
> transaction", and "rollback transaction", and that
> queries nested together did not have to be separated
> by semi-colons. But, V8.2 does not have the various
> aforementioned "transaction" syntax, and its queries
> require statements to be separated by semi-colons.
> And, this implies to me, that queries made for V3R7,
> would not work on V8.2. Now, please correct me, if
> I'm wrong, but if this is true, then at what point
> did th!
>  e DB2 become different? And what about V5R2? Can I
> develop queries for V8.2, that will work for V5R2?
> And vice versa.
> 
> Please someone help,
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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