Database Server...

["Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some very basic questions....

We are looking at allowing customers access to their accounts. 

The decision has already been made to host a WWW site on an NT server...
(What can I say? ... They don't want to use the AS/400)

but, all the customer information resides on our AS/400.

Would it be a relatively straight forward process to access the AS/400 data
from the NT WWW server?

Would the Web Developer use SQL calls? ODBC? something else?

Would a special user profile have to be defined to allow this kind of
access?

Would it be a very good idea to implement security via "Exit Program
Registration" on the AS/400?

Would it make more sense to replicate a subset of data to the NT WWW server
and synchronize it on a regular basis, in other words, don't allow direct
access to the AS/400 database server?

Any thing else I need to think about?


Kenneth

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Kenneth E. Graap
IBM Certified Specialist
AS/400 Professional
Network Administrator
NW Natural (Gas Services)
keg@nwnatural.com
Phone: 503-226-4211 x5537
FAX:    603-849-0591
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