RE: ODBC FROM iSeries - huh?

IIRC the JDBC to ODBC bridge is a type-1 JDBC driver (it's machine specific,
not pure Java) so you can run it on a windows box, but not on the iSeries. I
believe it assumes the JDBC driver and ODBC will be on the same box. Now,
you could implement a server on the PC that accepted inbound JDBC requests
and rerouted them to the JDBC-ODBC bridge, but that's not the same as having
access from the iSeries natively.

Of course you could use the pure-java drivers for Oracle or SQL Server or
... On the iSeries, but that wasn't the original questions. People have said
you can use ODBC on the iSeries and I'm trying to understand that.

-Walden


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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 16:04
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: ODBC FROM iSeries - huh?


> From: Walden H. Leverich
>
> >However, the iSeries can access outside data sources through DDM or
> >ODBC.
>
> which claim that the iSeries can use ODBC to access data on another
> machine.

How about a JDBC connection?  Can't JDBC on one machine access an ODBC
database on another machine?  I admit I'm not overly familiar with this, but
all the talk about how SQL is the world's database standard, and the extreme
interoperability of all SQL databases made this seem perfectly reasonable to
me.

Joe

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