Automate DTS/400

Abstract: Trying to connect to AS/400 DB/2 without logging into our NT Server 
for Data Transfer using SQL Data Transfer Services (DTS).

This is posted by MacWheel99@aol.com (Al Macintyre) on behalf of a co-worker 
… I offered to leave his e-mail address off & forward any suggestions to him 
but he said Ok to share lexicon@cen-elec.com (Jason Waller) … since our ISP 
is down, there will be a delay in him seeing anything.

Jason manages our Win NT Server running SQL 7 Service Pack 3 & I manage BPCS 
405 on our AS/400 model 170 currently at V4R3 soon to become V4R5.  From the 
400 perspective the NT is an external ethernet.  We specialize in different 
areas & much of what I am repeating here is foreign to me.  Jason has been 
able to use SQL's DTS service to connect and retrieve needed tables from the 
AS/400, but in order to automate this task he thinks he will have to do one 
of two things:

1.  Make sure that a Global User Account is signed on the NT box and that 
Client Access is linking to password on the NT User and Password.  This is 
not desirable because it means that someone will have to be logged into the 
server and that is not always possible.

2.  Configure ODBC for the AS/400 as a service.  Jason has attempted to 
follow the instructions listed at 
www.midrangecomputing.com/mne/article.cfm?id=188 but has had no luck in 
seeing any type of service appear under the Services on the NT box.  This 
trick involves using a utility called CWBCFG located in the client access 
directory.

Jason asks if anyone has any suggestions on how to use the OBDC driver for 
Client Access to AS/400 without having to create a link between the Client 
Access account and the NT Server Operator Account and having to physically 
log into the NT box in order to ensure that DTS operations can access the 
AS/400 data bases?

I do not know what all he wants to use this for, but I have seen where he is 
sending regular e-mails to our customers showing what we shipped them & I am 
seeing evidence of co-workers copying Query/400 reports to M$ Excel, so there 
is definitely a growing interest in flexibility of PCs accessing 400 data by 
non-traditional means.

Thanks in advance for information to help Jason.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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