Re: ODBC using Visual Basic.

Viv Bassani schrub am Fri, 30 May 1997 16:58:46 +0100:
> I am trying to retrieve AS/400 data using ODBC and VB 4.0
> This used to work using CA for windows 3.1. My current set-up
> is VB/Windows 95, CA95 and OS/400 V3R7. I've tried using the connect
> statement but keep getting the connection failed message. In the previous
> version (win 3.1) I had the same problem and used the SQLIBM program to
> make the initial connection. Does anyone know how this can be achieved
> from VB? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Do you have an (mandatory) entry in your AS/400 database directory?. If not 
use ADDRDBDIRE with parameters <name> (you can use your system name) and 
*LOCAL.  
 
Regards - Wolfgang

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