Closed system (was: PC connection via twinax ?)

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Hello Steve,

You wrote:
>Can you write a 3rd party query tool that has the same performance as 
>RunQry?

Yes.  Many vendors have done so.

>Could a 3rd party odbc driver be written for the 400?

Yes.  Either has a client component that allows the client to connect to 
AS/400 data or as a host component that allows AS/400 HLL applications to 
connect to ODBC compliant databases (e.g., SQL-Server, Sybase, Oracle, etc).  
Again, many vendors have done so.

>Is oracle able to port its database product to the 400?

Yes.  But why would they since there is a better DB provided with the 
system?  Since the DB is built into the machine rather than part of the OS 
or an additional product, Oracle would need to have a truly outstanding DB 
in order to compete.  Since they don't, they can't.

>If you write a 3rd party programming language, how do get the objects 
>referenced in a pgm written in that language to be included in dsppgmref?

Build the appropriate where-used space -- see next item.

>Much of ile is shrouded in secrecy.

To stop people who have no business buggering around with it.  If you want 
the ILE information then you have two choices:
        1/ Pay IBM lot's of money
        2/ Pitch a business case for a new ILE compiler that is so 
compelling for IBM that they provide the details (either free or for a 
nominal sum) because your compiler is such a wonderful thing that IBM want 
to make it available on the AS/400.  (With apologies to Oscar Wilde.)

>Is it known how a pgm can write direct to a twinax terminal or printer 
>device?

Yes.  UDDS, DSM, embedded printer codes, spool writer exit program.  Unless 
you mean bypassing the Workstation Controller in which case what would be 
the point?

>Back in the day when converting from the s36 to 400, there was an ibm 
>product that allowed data transfer thru the twinax port.  Is it known how 
>to do that?

No idea of the top of my head.  But why would that be needed now?  There are 
better file transfer methods available.  What was at the other end of the 
twin-ax port to receive the transferred file?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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