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> what do you mean, DDM? Sounds familiar, but i can remember what this is/was > exactly. I'm wondering how the AS/400 database (back in /94) couldhave been > accessed remotely from a PC program. if it could have ... appreciate your > help here. ddm is distributed data management. it is an easy to use method of sharing data from one as/400 to another. you basically say you are using file whatever on system b instead of your local system. then, when you process your data it uses the data just as if you were locally attached. no programming changes necessary. downsides are pure communication speed. if your files are large, and you are only using a little bit of data, the entire file has to be transmitted. in some cases, this won't work well. i don't know if you can use ddm in an as/400 to p/c environment. but i seem to recall an article in late 1993 about how to do client server, in news/400. i can't remember if it was for os/2 or windows 3/1, but i could check if it's important. nj
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