Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

Which reminds me....

there's always the TN5250 emulator that runs on the palm. You can connect
wireless to the 400 and run 5250 sessions... no other palm application
needed (I think). Anyway, I think Cozzi mentioned that he has (or had) this
running to his palm.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
>To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:27 PM
>Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>
>
>>How does the Palm talk to the NT?
>
>Well, I know it does the cradle thingy. I don't know if they have added WAP
>or not.
>
>>The application I helped develop involved a
>>whole bunch (say 100) Palms, each carried by the foreman of a construction
>>crew. It was used to track construction worker timesheets. The foreman
>would
>>plug his Palm into a cellphone out at the construction site and dial a
>phone
>>number with a modem in front of an AS/400 at the central site to report
the
>>work done (by ftp'ing the data to the AS/400) and to get info about the
>next
>>job, etc. How do I do that with DB2 everyplace? Did I miss something and
>>charged my client for something that he could get off the shelf?
>
>
>Again, I am not sure, as I have not looked at or used the product for at
>least a year now. But DB2 everyplace supports bi-directional updates of the
>DB2 database on the palm through standard synch on the palm to the NT.
>
>If that synch can be done over the modem, then... it should work.
>
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