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First off....what do you mean by Websphere?

Websphere is a brand, not a product.
http://www-142.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/atoz/websphere?pgel=lnav

On the i, Websphere is usually used to mean
- Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (WDSCi)
- Webphere Application Server (WAS)
- Websphere MQ

IBM's equivalent to RPG2SQL is called InfoSphere Federation Server
(Though it used to be called Websphere Federation Server :)
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/federation-server/
http://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/whitepaper/i5os/db2/access

It's part of the DB2 family, installs on a Windows PC (like RPG2SQL),
and allows you to access other data sources using standard embedded
SQL via DRDA.
EXEC SQL CONNECT TO remotedb;
EXEC SQL SELECT custpref INTO :locpref FROM orcustomer
WHERE custid=22;

But you'll pay big $$$ for it.

As others have mentioned, you can use JDBC directly from RPG.

An interesting take on the JDBC option, is the open source ArdGate here:
http://rpgiv.info/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=473&Itemid=75

ArdGate provides a DRDA client (known as an Application Requester
(AR)) that uses JDBC to access the remote DB. So it runs on the i,
yet you can use standard embedded SQL to access the remote data (like
IBM's InfoSphere Federation Server).

I'd stick with RPG2SQL, otherwise you're going to be rewriting and
retesting everything.

HTH,
Charles

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Tom Hightower <tomh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've been using RPG2SQL for 5 years, very happily I might add.  After the
first year, "The Power that Is" decided to let the maintenance on RPG2SQL
lapse.  We're now about to purchase a new iSeries and upgrade some of our
PCs. This will require that we re-purchase the RPG2SQL license, or pay a
rather steep cost + penalty to maintenance up to date.  TPtI is not happy.

The iSeries side of RPG2SQL will submit an SQL-type of query to a remote
server (PCs running MySQL, in our case), the client software on the PC will
capture that request, perform the SQL retrieval from the MySQL database and
return the results to the iSeries.  RPG2SQL is capable of much more, but
this is how we use it; not much else is needed.

I've been tasked with finding an alternative within WebSphere - is there?





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