Re: ASNA and DataGate

> "CZE Midrange" <CZEMidrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Subject: ASNA and DataGate
> We are looking at an A/R package called CFORIA that uses the 400 as a data
> warehouse feeding interactively to local clients through something called
> Datagate by ASNA. ODBC solutions are obviously better suited for batch
> processing but the CFORIA folks are selling the ASNA solution as
> "sub-second" type response time during interactive database requests. Has
> anybody had any experience with DataGate and if so, can you corroborate
> this DB2 solution with what I am being told?
>
> Thanks much and if anyone has used CFORIA for their A/R applications, let
> me know what you think as well about it's application capabilities and
> performance record.
>
>  Rick Rayburn
> NYC

Rick -
I haven't any experience with CFORIA, but ASNA has thousands of customers.
I am an ASNA customer and ASNA Visual RPG for .NET developer, and I have
good experience dealing with their products, including DataGate, for
approximately three years.

DataGate is a very stable database engine that ASNA developed long ago and
has been through several versions.  It is considerably faster than ODBC/JDBC
database access.  Their ASNA Visual RPG programming language allows
record-level access using RPG file operation codes with DataGate.  One of
the big advantages of AVR and DataGate is that your database can reside on
your local PC, a SQL server database, or on the AS/400 - iSeries, so you're
not necessarily bound to the AS/400 - iSeries box as the database server for
this application.

HTH,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935