Re: Warehouse Automation Project

> I have thought about going to dataqueues and skip all that SQL-stuff.
> Are there dataqueue tools for Unix and Win2K systems (Visual Basic)?

I'm not aware of dataqueue tools for Unix, and I've had major stability
problems with data queues in Windows (I was using RUMBA, though, not
client access)

Sockets, however, are available on all of those systems... assuming that
they're all able to talk TCP/IP to each other.  Unlike data queues,
sockets are real-time.  (A data queue doesn't know if there's a
program listening for entries.  If there's no program there, it simply
queues the entries for later processing. Whereas, a socket scenario, there
has to be a program listening, or you get an error.)

Your Unix programmers will almost certainly be familiar with socket
programming, it's very common on Unix systems.   Your Windows programmers
might be familiar...  your iSeries programmers probably aren't, but I've
got a tutorial for them! :)

http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/socktut/


If you don't want to go with sockets, you might explore MQ Series.
Although I haven't used it, I know someone who uses it for this type of
processing, and he's happy with it.