Re: AS400 data connected to the Intranet or Internet. -Reply

In this case then it is hard to recommend.  Probably they should find some hot 
and handy database or spreadsheeet program then, and just treat the AS400 as 
peripheral disk stores.  With as general a direction as they have given you, it 
would appear to me that their real goal is to get everything into a spreadsheet 
anyway, so why not just do it?  The real challenge for them, in my opinion, is 
to learn about what they already have with the DB/2 database on the AS/400.  

In <s674e9d7.080@mailhost.polarisind.com>, on 12/14/98 
   at 10:42 AM, Archie Cameron <AGCAMER@mailhost.polarisind.com> said:


>Who knows what the final request will look like?  For now the request is
>to view/update a table.  However, I can see it quickly evolving to
>processing orders.
>Thanks

>>>> <boothm@ibm.net> 12/14/98 09:17am >>>
>What does "accessing data" mean to them?  would this be for updating?
>getting data for spreadsheets? moving data to another software database? 
>Will someone be filling orders with the data? doing invoicing? loading a
>Lotus Notes data base?  There are many ways to use AS/400 data.

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