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  • Subject: RE: AS400....is it really "Open" - Answers
  • From: ray@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 06:58:51 -0400
  • Importance: Normal

"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:
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