When I first browsed thru the list of CFE's, I too thought it would be
great to get
rid of the annoying file equate 'problem' with Dbutil.

After reading John's thought on why we should keep it as is, I agree with
him. Even 'experienced' folks make mistakes
(Did I say that???)  <grin>

I hereby withdraw my $5 on the Dbutil file equate and will spend it wisely
on another
irritant....

(Picture this.... you just issued a Dbutil erase command on a production
database. The blood drains from your
face. You turn white. Your heart starts pumping faster. Your phone starts
to ring. You feel sick...)

Rick 'I need to lay down' Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R
Cleveland, Ohio

John Zoltak wrote:

> Hello List Members,
>
> Regarding Jeff Vance's message on CFE's. As I was reading these and
> trying to figure out where to spend my $5 and wishing I had more money
> to spend, I was considering item DB 2. "DBUTIL to ignore file
> equations."
>
> I would think that it would be better to leave it like it is. Maybe for
> those of us who are experienced it would be nice to change it, but for
> the inexperienced it could be a nightmare. Consider that someone might
> issue a file equation to a test database, use some programs to do
> testing, and then want to erase that database to restart their testing
> cycle. They use DBUTIL and erroneously think that they've just erased
> their test database only to be horrified to find that by chance no one
> was accessing the production database and it was just erased.
>
> If you leave it like it is, it'll tell them that they can't use a file
> equation and they'll have to CHGROUP or whatever to erase the database.
>
> So what do y'all think?
>
> John Zoltak
> North American Mfg Co