RE: Connecting the iseries thru crystal in a VB app

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear you. Did not know what you'd already been through!

We use Crystal, both stand-alone and in our GUI, which is written in 
Delphi. There has been no problem with connecting from the GUI for our 
customers, but I have not looked at the order of things there.

There are some cryptic instructions from a former developer, on the use of 
Crystal stand-alone when generating reports for one of our services. The 
instruction is to already have a Client Access 5250 session going, 
otherwise it does not connect in Crystal. Seems weird to me, but I've never 
explored it. If anything, I wonder whether there is something to do with 
the security settings in OpsNav for a particular AS/400 connection - OpsNav 
is where security settings are set. It gets convoluted.

Wish I could be more help - maybe this'll get you down a better path.
Vern

At 10:07 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote:
> It is our VB developer that is asking me for help.  She is new to the
> as/400 and cannot figure out why it is / is not connecting and is
> reaching out to me.  I checked the ODBC setups,  crystal database
> reference within the report etc.  and couldn't find anything that I knew
> of that was wrong,  that's when I turned to you.   I will try searching
> the crystal web site and see if it has anymore to offer.
>
> Thanks!