RE: Communication between Notes & AS/400

If anyone out there would respond to a simple question, I think we might
be able to help Ron out.

Can Notes create ActiveX objects from out-of-process servers?

Doing so would allow Ron more choices and levels of integration.

Ken Slaugh
Senior Programmer/System Analyst
AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
Specialist - Client Access/400
Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Hudson [SMTP:roxrhud@colaik.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 6:21 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      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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