Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400


>How does the Palm talk to the NT?

Well, I know it does the cradle thingy. I don't know if they have added WAP
or not.

>The application I helped develop involved a
>whole bunch (say 100) Palms, each carried by the foreman of a construction
>crew. It was used to track construction worker timesheets. The foreman
would
>plug his Palm into a cellphone out at the construction site and dial a
phone
>number with a modem in front of an AS/400 at the central site to report the
>work done (by ftp'ing the data to the AS/400) and to get info about the
next
>job, etc. How do I do that with DB2 everyplace? Did I miss something and
>charged my client for something that he could get off the shelf?


Again, I am not sure, as I have not looked at or used the product for at
least a year now. But DB2 everyplace supports bi-directional updates of the
DB2 database on the palm through standard synch on the palm to the NT.

If that synch can be done over the modem, then... it should work.