RE: IBM DB2 serious alternative to Oracle/Informix?

Posted in 1997

"Igor I. Lisyansky" — 3 Jul 1997 06:43:22 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hello All! Tim Schaefer wrote: >Another interesting point. The on-line documentation is >characteristically >IBM, and you have to fire up each help file separately. This is majorly >sucky software. Informix has nothing to worry about with the NT >version. >You can put Visual Aged for Java in this catagory too. Yech! Above all, DB/2 still doesn't have the stored procedures like SPL or PL/SQL (though allows triggers written in such a way). So, SP can be written only in host language and compiled into modules native for host OS). So, it seems to me, Informix may relax... because still rulez. Cheers Igor I. Lisyansky