Re: New application using remote databases from RPG program

If I'm not mistaken, he can have names for DDM files that differ but point to the same-name PF on different machines, right? Then he can list them all in his RPG and open them all if he wants. You still have to read each one on its own, but this seems like a VERY simple thing to do. And simple makes for much better maintenance down the road.

Legacy-phlegacy!! Go for DDM!!

JMHO
Vern

Nathan Andelin wrote:

Okay, it sounds like SQL may be the best way to retrieve the remote data in this case. Whether you use SQL / DRDA or RPG Record Level Access / DDM may also depend on how normalized the remote files are. But, it sounds like SQL / DRDA may work best in your case.

-Nathan.



----- Original Message ----
From: sjl <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 10:30:24 AM
Subject: Re: New application using remote databases from RPG program

Nathan -

We are gathering inventory balances and cost from the appropriate JDE files in all affiliates.

This information, once gathered into one comma or tab-delimited file in the special environment, will then be FTP'd to be processed by a BI application running on a PC server. Once the data is successfully obtained from /all/ 52 environments, the client (another department within the company) wants the aggregated data sent all at once, not 52 separate times...

- sjl


Nathan wrote:
Steve,

What would be the purpose of transferring the data to the "local" system?
Why not just read remote data and output it to the client?
Are we talking 5250 or browser?
Would the new application be updating remote data, or just inquiry?

Nathan.