Re: 0.15.6!!

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:17:06AM -0500, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> 
> > Now, if someone can get the data transfer to Excel spreadsheet on Linux, I
> won't
> > need to dual boot anymore...
> 
> Can Excel import XML?  I hacked a utility called asdbget which uses FTP and
> some AS/400 specific magic to retreive files from the 400 and put translate
> them in to ASCII XML format (which has a header describing the complete
> file layout).
> 
> The theory is that you could pipe it to a quick hack of a perl script using
> XML::Parser that could translate it into any other format.
> 
> 
> I don't know anything about XML (yet?) but I'm extremely interested in your
> AS400 magic!  I'd really like to be able to use ODBC to get data from AS/400
> files.  I don't always need to get the whole file (although a lot of times,
> I do need the whole file or can work with it if I do get the whole file.)
> 
> I'm about to embark on a project where I'll need to update a database on
> Linux periodically with data from the AS/400.  Obviously I need an automatic
> way of doing this.  I know this isn't exactly on topic (well, not even close
> anymore, I guess...)  Anyone doing this?  Is there an appropriate forum for
> this discussion?

Hehe, probably not.  Really, this list has been about Linux <=> AS/400 
connectivity, and let's just say that if it gets too big a topic, we'll split
it up into seperate lists.

Michael Madore has done this by retreiving journal files and using them to
sync an Oracle databse server, and also done this with FTP and his as4002unix
utility, which was hacked by myself, with input from Mike, to become asdbget.
I'll have to post it soon.  (Again, when my ISP dries up :)

We do know that FTP transfers appear to be much faster than ODBC/DRDA
transfers.  We also know that certain types of database files refuse to
transfer via FTP - if you populate a field with 'NULL' via an SQL statement,
for example.

I can't really comment on how he's doing the journal file thing... Mike?

> 
> TIA!
> 
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