Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
> From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
>
> >6) the whole ftp transfer is controlled by a small script on the Palm.
> >
> >As I said, the whole thing turned out to be a lot less easy than everybody
> >said (oh, the Palm is easy, the Palm is cool, piece of cake, etc, etc)
>
>
> Yeah, we looked at building an app on the palm to actually use the DB2
> everyplace database on the palm and replicate back, but the app building,
> not the SQL, stopped us.
>

what made it hard was not the database, not the app, but the communication.
I think there still isn't a usable Palm FTP client (apart from my hack) that
can be integrated with a Palm application.
The construction crew foreman should not have to do TN5250 emulation :-)
or SQL statements :-)