Re: SYSIBM Library

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James

At 06:37 AM 12/9/97 +1100, you wrote:
>I have been having some troubles using a data modeling tool called
>ER/Studio to reverse engineer some AS/400 files.  I am connecting to the
>400 over ODBC and I get a weird SQL error stating that library SYSIBM
>cannot be found.  If I create SYSIBM it claims it can't find files
>SYSDBAUTH and SYSTABLES.  Now I know the SYSTABLES file but SYSIBM and
>SYSDBAUTH and both new to me.  SYSIBM rings a distant bell somewhere but
>damned if I can remember where.  So anyone with any ideas?

I tried ER/Studio some time ago. It doesn't work with AS/400 at this time.
When I called them, they said they've concentrated on desktop databases.
The messages you are getting have to do with DB2, as in DB2 for NT or OS/2,
and is not the same as DB2/400.

I put a bug in their corporate ear that there are several 1000 AS/400's out
there that might like a tool such as theirs. The message got to the top,
but I've not seen anything about implementing DB2/400 yet.

We are going to PowerDesigner (formerly S-Designor), from PowerSoft/Sybase.
It doesn't reverse-engineer triggers and constraints yet, but they sound
like they're working on it.

I wish Embarcadero did talk AS/400—I liked it, esp. for the price.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480


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