RE: IBM's AS/400 toolbox for JAVA

There is excellent support within AS/400 for IFS through APIs etc.  You can
easily use OLE DB to run commands, programs ... on the AS/400.  The result
sets and stream data can be made available to the OLE DB client.

Choosing between OLE DB and JAVA Tool box?  Life long question.  What is
your ultimate goal?  How much MONEY you have right now and for maintenance?
Is your solution very dynamic ?  Is it a throw away application in a year?
Decision is very difficult, but has to be made right now for business
solutions.

Kishor

-----Original Message-----
From: sashi [mailto:sashi@halcyon.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:08 PM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: IBM's AS/400 toolbox for JAVA


Sorry for the little delay on the response. I got side track on something
else for a while.

Well, one thing that I want to use is IFS.  I can't see IFS under OLE DB
which should be technically possible to implement there.
At the same time, IBM seems to expand JAVA toolbox classes as time goes on
whereas IBM does not seem do that to OLE DB (or COM) anymore.  So I am
thinking about future also...


At 09:32 AM 3/24/99 -0800, you wrote:
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>What functionality does the Java toolkit provide that you do not have with
the
>OLE DB toolkit?
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>sashi <sashi@halcyon.com> on 03/24/99 08:41:38 AM
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>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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>To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>cc:    (bcc: Bob Love/Bend/OrcomSolutions)
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>Subject:  Re: IBM's AS/400 toolbox for JAVA
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>Thanks to all those who replied for my question.
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>The OLE DB toolkit ships with Client Access (even Express version) does not
>seem to have all the functionality that the IBM's JAVA Toolbox does.  So
>basically, if I want to use Visual Basic to use the IBM JAVA toolbox's
>equivalent functionality, I seems to have the following choises: use MS
JVM,
>use COM <-> CORBA bridge, or use other third vendor's rich OLE DB
toolkit...
>My understanding is that MS JVM is not pure 100% Java compliant. Also, it
>sounds like you need a fair amonut of labor to make COM <-> CORBA mechanism
>work...  I probably should find out what other vendors distribute good and
>rich OLD DB toolkit...
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>Thanks, again!
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>At 10:06 AM 3/24/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>Incidently, Client Access ships with an OLE DB toolkit already, and Client
>>Access ADO drivers (for DB2 400) are in beta right now and available fo
>>download with Client Access Express beta. Not sure if this relates to you
>>concerns.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>>> Thanks for the reply.  I am actually aware of project lightining.  But
my
>>>> feeling is that the OLE DB stuff from IBM won't grow while JAVA toolbox
>>>> seems to be growing.  So there will be some features that you can do
with
>>>> JAVA, but not in the OLE DB.  I think...
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