Re: AS400 to PC and Back ??

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not use FTP? I'm not a Visual Basic programmer, but I think there
may be an OCX that provides FTP support. It will be fast. 

Patrick

Vijosh A wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> One of our applications on the AS400  dumps erroneous transactions of the
> day into 4 physical files. There is a PC based application developed in
> Delphi which the finance guys use. Every morning the finance guy logs into
> the Delphi system on his PC.  The Delphi system connects to the AS400
> through DDI/400  (a 3rd party software) and makes the records of these files
> available to the user. The user edits and corrects these transactions. When
> he exits from the Delphi application the transactions go back to the AS400.
> All this is automatic. Later during the day end procedure the corrected ones
> if found okay is taken from these 4 PF's and moved.
> 
> The problem is that it is too slow. The Delphi user has to wait for 45
> minutes before he gets something to edit. All subsequent actions also take
> lot of time.  DDI/400 makes the physical file available to the Delphi system
> through DDM files.
> 
> Can anybody suggest ways of making this process faster?
> 
> We have feeling that FTP may make the whole process faster. But the database
> is too large. So it is not feasible to download the whole database on to the
> PC and send it back to the AS400.
> 
> Vijosh A
> Senior Consultant
> Systems & Software
> SEEPZ, Bombay, INDIA.
> Email : <vijosha@alfuttaim.co.ae>
> 
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