Re: Delphi with a AS/400 database

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

Use data queues, maybe a little old style (many people will
suggest to use sokets), but very easy.

--- Pascal Bellerose <pbellero@portbec.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>     Some of you may recongnize me I was at Progisys inc.
> a few weeks ago.
> I would like to take some outputs from a PC Delphi
> application (I don't know
> the version of delphi yet), and insert them into an
> AS/400 database.  Now
> it's the first time I'm going to do this and I guess it
> won't be the last.
>     How could this be done? I've thought of having the
> Delphi application
> calling an RPG program that would receive the data
> through some parameters.
> But then I started wonder if there was a limit for the
> lenght of the
> parameters passed to an RPG program.  And finally I
> wondered if I was at
> least able to pass parameters to a RPG program through a
> Delphi program.
> And is there data conversion process to do?(ex :ASCII to
> EBCDIC).
>  
>     Anyway maybe I'm focusing on the wrong solution.
>  
> Anybody has an idea?
>  
> Thanks In advance!
>  
>  
> Pascal Bellerose
> Programmeur-Analyste
> Portbec inc.
>  
> 


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