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RE: What about pl-sql support, conversions, etc?

Posted By: John Miller iii
Date: Friday, 11 January 2013, at 11:54 a.m.

In Response To: RE: What about pl-sql support, conversions, etc? (Alexandre Marini)

Just out of curiousity what other functions are you looking for? It always
helps
to have a list from our customers.

John F. Miller III
STSM, Embedability Architect
miller3@us.ibm.com

ids-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 01/10/2013 03:08:53 AM:

> From: "Alexandre Marini" <alexandre@briug.org>
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Date: 01/10/2013 03:11 AM
> Subject: RE: What about pl-sql support, conversions, etc? [29252]
> Sent by: ids-bounces@iiug.org
>
> Yes Fernando! That are good news. Even a better SQL support, to ease a
> migration process, would be very nice.
>
> I realize some functions are not easy to go, like DECODE, etc... and
> unfortunately, our ANSI SQL is not so used, as we like, in other engines.

>
> Thanks a lot for your explanations, and your point of view, Fernando.
> Regards.
>
> Alexandre Marini
> IBM Informix Certified Professional v10 / v11.50 / v11.70
>
> IBM Information Management Informix Technical Professional
>
> IBM Infosphere DataStage Technical Professional
> Informix Senior DBA - Orizon Brasil
> BRIUG website administrator
> Informix independent consultant
>
> > To: ids@iiug.org
> > From: domusonline@gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: What about pl-sql support, conversions, etc? [29251]
> > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:37:14 -0500
> >
> > I have no inside information (and if I had I wouldn't be able to
discuss it
> > naturally). But 11.70.FC6 includes a datablade that implements some
> > functions of some Oracle PL/SQL packages. I see no reason why
thiscouldn't
> > be enhanced in the future.
> > I have a *personal* opinion about this "compatibility" question...It's
not
> > IBM official position and It's very debatable of course...
> > The so called compatibility appeals to existing customers. And an
existing
> > customer will only change if one of two situations occurs:
> > - The competitor is "squeezing" the customer
> > - The customer is really, truly annoyed with the level of support it
gets
> > from the supplier
> >
> > In any case, customers are very risk averse, meaning they'll do almost
> > anything to avoid migration risks. So...
> > In case 1) most situations end up with the competitor lowering the
costs
> > and the customers choose the less risk option (stay with what they
have)
> > Case 2) is very, very rare in my experience.
> >
> > So, my personal opinion is that the compatibility features will not
help
> > too much... But of course, we should split these into at least two
areas:
> >
> > 1- SQL compatibility (not functions, but SQL syntax).
> > This is important and we've been working on that. Expect more features
in
> > the future versions. This means functionality that can be used by 3rd
party
> > companies and this could allow more companies to support Informix
> >
> > 2- "simple" SQL functions that we currently don't have/support.
> > Most of the times they can easily be implemented and the idea of
putting
> > them into a datablade seems good to me. The problem is that sometimes
these
> > functions require some processing on the internal engine implementation
and
> > can't easily be done in User Defined Functions (UDRs)
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:19 AM, ALEXANDRE MARINI
> <alexandre@briug.org>wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, friends.
> > > I realize IBM has keep improving the Orcl integration into DB2,
> but... why
> > > not
> > > Informix has something similar (better, I mean.... but we know that)?

> > >
> > > Something very very good for us, to improve our target markets, and
> > > products
> > > that were used in that "dark side", like it was always "the
bestdatabase
> > > engine", like they like to say....
> > >
> > > Hope someone of our IBMer friends could let us know if this will be
> > > possible,
> > > and when, would be a great answer for us, users and DBAs from
day-by-day
> > > listen and see new products based in that technology, every week.
When
> will
> > > Informix be in strong and known products world?
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> >
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> > My email works... but I don't check it frequently...
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