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Steven: On Thu, 06 December 2001, steven.donnellan@simonjersey.com wrote: > I think we're winning because they are spotting the strengths of the > AS/400 for the business in question. I have also given my friend a few > pointers on how he might consider sharing data between the systems using > something like access (I know, I know...) as a go between. Sharing data might be easy depending on what Unix it is and what's installed. Keep in mind that the AS/400 supports NFS and that even DRDA is possible (if the Unix side has the necessary components.) An iSeries at V4R5 has multiple Unix-related options. QShell is a Unix-style shell for running scripts and utilities. Hundreds of Unix APIs are native, available even to RPG. Linux can run in a LPAR (I know -- already disqualified.) And PASE provides a binary-compatibility with AIX. There are some Unixes that don't provide as much. PASE is an intriguing possibility. It's essentially nothing more than some run-time libraries (costing maybe $100 for V4R5?) that provides an ABI for AIX executables. I've compiled a C program on AIX, FTP'd it to the IFS and run the program with no problem. (Of course, I also tested modifying the resulting streamfile object with EDTF to see what would happen and it ran just as well. That was one difference between those and native *PGM objects that made me nervous.) I'd expected somebody else to mention PASE by now, but QShell and Linux were all that showed up. Tom Liotta -- Tom Liotta The PowerTech Group, Inc. 19426 68th Avenue South Kent, WA 98032 Phone 253-872-7788 Fax 253-872-7904 http://www.400Security.com ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/
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