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Sean

I'd say you are spot on. It is the responsibility of vendors to provide the tools to get access to their particular product. As Dan K said, this is a DRDA provider. Oracle was the only one to do it, and they gladly took your 35K to give it to you. They've since stopped supporting or selling it, so far as I can tell.

So some of us have found ways to use things like the ODBC drivers on a middleware PC - IBM's solution does that, as does ours. (And I have an OAR handler for ours, as well - might be worth a look if you want.)

You might look up "heterogeneous data access" in google for an article by Kent Milligan that discusses alternatives.

HTH
Vern

On 12/6/2011 9:10 AM, McGovern, Sean wrote:
I thought the problem was the other way around. IBM provides the tools so that you can access DB2 from other platforms out of the box. This enables the 'pass-through' to DB2. But the other platforms don't provide the tools so that their data can be accessed from IBM i.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Thompson
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: For Christmas, I want

For Christmas, I want the IBM Rochester system i team to do something significant to make the i a true server of choice.
I think I remember that 'server of choice' phrase from times past, but the gap I continue to see is the difficulty of querying foreign SQL DB from DB2 on i.

Some years ago, from MS Sql Server or Access I could "easily"
create 'pass-through' queries against DB2. But the reverse required a purchase.

Now, I am working through that same dilemma and wonder why
DB2 on i does not have native ability to exchange data with other ANSI compliant Db.

Out of the box, so to speak.


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