Re: AS400....is it really "Open" - Answers

Thanks for the links, John.

I would like to remind the original poster of the "openness" question
that "openness" is measured in other platforms ability to access the
AS/400 resources.

So if you are on *nix or Winxx can you access a file on the AS/400 or
use it's printer.  If so, the AS/400 is "open" to the outside world.

John Myers - MM wrote:
> 
> >But nothing has been done to allow us to access
> >data from another systems database....such as
> >SQLServer.
> 
> Ray,
> 
> My company has this problem regularly ... we must interface our AS/400
> motor vehicle systems with multiple servers for different customers.
> 
> DRDA is the way to get it done.  The "hitch" is that you need to get the
> DRDA drivers for the DBMS that you are trying to access.  For example, for:
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