"The $64,000 questions about DB2/400"

Here are the $64,000 questions about DB2/400:

• Are you still creating database objects with DDS and operating system commands ?
• Are you still using Query for ad-hoc information retrieval ?
• Are you still writing "one-shot" programs to repair database files ?
• Are you still under the impression that physical and logical files are the only two types of database objects ?

If the answer to any of these is "yes", we'd like to know why?

iSeries Navigator, which comes with OS/400, contains a wealth of wizards and tools allowing you to create, manage and manipulate your database objects. It also gives you easy access to all FOURTEEN types of database objects, and lets you design your data with the TWENTY data types currently supported. It leverages the rich power of SQL and its wealth of built in functions - all ONE HUNDRED FIFTY ONE of them !

Yet somehow, inexplicably, vast legions of midrange professions still live and die by the Delorean-Esq database tools of the 1980's. Please share your thoughts on this topic (either pro's or con's) and if you have traded in the Delorean, your success stories and battle scars.

Thanks for sharing. Chris.