Re: AS400....is it really an "Open" system??

it took a while for the sql on the 400 to catch up, but for
several years it's been avail, as well as odbc, c-sockets
and rpgle-sockets pgms. we are just slow to use all this
stuff. jim
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From: <ray@esprinkle.cc>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: AS400....is it really an "Open" system??


>
> I have a question that maybe someone on the list
> can answer.
>
> Several years ago a major effort was made to make
> the AS400 more open. Other platforms could access
> our data....etc. And this was achieved for all
> intents and purposes.
>
> But nothing has been done to allow us to access
> data from another systems database....such as
> SQLServer.
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong or not informed. Is there a way
> to access data from another system via RPG in
> a realtime fashion? And if we can't why isn't
> there any grumbling about this?
>
>
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