Re: Changing the default database. -- MIDRANGE-L

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On 02/21/99 08:08:48 AM David Dunfield  wrote:

>Why? DB2/400 is rock solid and built in. You can get to other databases 
via ODBC
>and SQL. Why would anyone chose to go to an NT Server when AS/400 never 
goes 
>down
>(Ours has been up 2 years straight without a single problem).

One reason: other departments/acquisitions/trading partners, etc. are using 
NT, and it'd be nice if I could drive the data access from my AS/400 RPG 
program.  As far as I know, you can't use ODBC *from* an AS/400 *to* a PC, 
and I haven't figured how to get SQL to work, either.

Buck Calabro
CommSoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
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