Re: Web to AS/400 Database connectivity

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Although the Asna product works well, I don't like it because you have to run
> Datagate to access the as/400 database.  If the datagate subsystem is down
> your data won't be served.  It also adds another layer between the application
> and DB/2.
> 
> It does make development a little easier but a properly designed server
> application could do the same work without another software product in the 
>middle.


btw, datagate isn't a subsystem, but a series of programs.

we've had really good luck with it over the 3+ years we've been working
with it.  there were occasionally some tie ups several years ago, but
since they came out with version 3, i don't think we've had any datagate
problems.  and we have 10 or so of our clients running it, both for
traditional avr applications, and some for web serving.

for us, having a product that gave you record level access to the as/400
data was a dream come true.

nj
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