Alan Seiden

@ThePrez With the PHP toolkit, most users did not hand-craft a *SBMJOB string. To do so was rare, perhaps not even possible at first, and definitely more obscure than with...

@kadler We were thinking UDF rather than UDTF, since XMLSERVICE returns a single value (XML string). What do you think? Incidentally, we PHP Toolkit maintainers were discussing the advantages of...

Is this PR still being worked on? It would help us encourage use of the odbc transport if the open/close performance penalty were no longer a concern.

What I perceived was that the other languages were there (Python, Node). People would expect PHP to be there in the same category and not know about IBM's distinction between...

It seems there is a concern that enhancing PHP 8.4 compatibility (minimal changes for compatibility without warnings and deprecations) would cause breaks in earlier versions. Has this been demonstrated, or...

@IMSoP > The rest is just a lot of arguing about what "compatible" means. Having read most of the comments on this topic, I was left unsure whether the group...

@develart-projects Deprecations are **not** a major problem, but we eliminate them when we can, because they typically repeat many times in the PHP log, making it harder to see issues...

@IMSoP Thank you for clarifying about return type declarations and how to use `#[\ReturnTypeWillChange]` to provide 100% compatibility (if I understood correctly) with older PHP versions. I wonder if it...