Communication between Notes & AS/400

We are getting ready to hire a consultant to write a lotus notes
application for us.  The challenge is the application needs to retreive
data from the AS/400 and also update db's on the AS/400.

Eight years ago, we did something similiar, by doing a file transfer to the
AS/400 via PCSupport, then using RMTCMD to execute a program on the AS/400
to process the uploaded file, and finally doing another file transfer to
download the results.  This system is still running, but it is time to move
on to new methods.

What would be the best method to handle the data transfer between Notes &
AS/400:  ODBC, sockets....?????

We are currently using Client Access and running V4R1.  By the time this
project is complete, we should be on V4R3.


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