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12.3.2 Benefits of SQL on z/TPF
It would not make sense to include an SQL database server just to complete an acronym, but
it works if you want to provide the functionality implied. Many open source packages expect
data, for example configuration data, to reside in a SQL based database. Converting such an
application to use a TPF native file access method, especially for rarely used data such as
configuration data, would be challenging, an alternative is just to port a basic relational
database to z/TPF itself, to fill this gap.
This is, of course, not the only reason why a user might desire that some level of relational
data reside on z/TPF.
There might also be cases where access to data even through ...