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"Openness" implies a two-way street. Seamless data access across disparate systems has been a goal in IT for years. And other manufacturers have been able to do these things for a long time. Everyone that is but us. I don't know who in IBM decided to restrict our ability to get over the wall. But we shouldn't even be having this discourse. The ability to access data from SQL Server, or any other platform for that matter, should be as common place as reading a file with RPG. But as you can see from this thread, how to do so isn't common knowledge. Thanks everyone for the leads.....we might just get over this hurdle yet. Yep, I'm optimistic !!! R.Sprinkle www.eSprinkle.cc -----Original Message----- From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W. Kilgore Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:03 AM To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com Subject: Re: AS400....is it really "Open" - Answers Thanks for the links, John. I would like to remind the original poster of the "openness" question that "openness" is measured in other platforms ability to access the AS/400 resources. So if you are on *nix or Winxx can you access a file on the AS/400 or use it's printer. If so, the AS/400 is "open" to the outside world. John Myers - MM wrote: > > >But nothing has been done to allow us to access > >data from another systems database....such as > >SQLServer. > > Ray, > > My company has this problem regularly ... we must interface our AS/400 > motor vehicle systems with multiple servers for different customers. > > DRDA is the way to get it done. The "hitch" is that you need to get the > DRDA drivers for the DBMS that you are trying to access. For example, for: +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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