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  • Subject: Early Client Server on the AS/400
  • From: JanAS400@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:01:39 EST

does anyone know.    back in early '94 when ILE was announced, was it possible
to use SQL to access the AS/400 database remotely?    At that time, a some
companies went to a unix box (such as HP, Rs6000) and a DBMS (such as Oracle,
Informix, or Sybase) because they wanted to go "client server".    Did they
have to do this, or could they have stayed with the AS/400 and use SQL (and/or
odbc) to call the as/400 database (named DB2 in early '94)  ..    
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