Re: Early Client Server on the AS/400

Dean, Jan...

Couldnt' you do the same via DDM???

Don in DC

On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> Jan,
> 
> In a message dated 12/26/98 7:01:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, JanAS400@aol.com
> writes:
> 
> > does anyone know.    back in early '94 when ILE was announced, was it 
> > possible
> >  to use SQL to access the AS/400 database remotely?    At that time, a some
> >  companies went to a unix box (such as HP, Rs6000) and a DBMS (such as
> Oracle,
> >  Informix, or Sybase) because they wanted to go "client server".    Did they
> >  have to do this, or could they have stayed with the AS/400 and use SQL
> (and/or
> >  odbc) to call the as/400 database (named DB2 in early '94)  ..    
> 
> Didn't have anything to do with ILE but, yes, you could use ODBC to access the
> AS/400 database as early as 1992 from what I recall.  In a former life, we had
> quoted a client a C/S application running under MS Access and the ShowCase
> ODBC back then.  I don't remember the exact timing, but the FSIOP had just
> been renamed to the IPCS, PC/Support to client access, and the "black boxes"
> had just been announced.  Given the benefit of hindsight, our decision to
> recommend C/S was probably a poor one at the time.  Why do you ask?
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
> 
> "You must do the things you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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