Re: ODBC from IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

My particular problem was wanting to access files
residing on Windows PC's using Java (or even RPG)
applications that reside on the iSeries.
ODBC can be used for other databases, i.e. dbase
III/IV, MS Access, etc.

These databases exist because different departments at
our organization has aquired applications (for one
reason or another) that run on PC's and utilize these
databases.  I would like be able to run applications
strictly off of our Enterprise System (iSeries) to
access & manipulate these heterogeneous databases.  

I currently have been writing Java programs that
reside on the PC's and I will kick them off from our
iSeries (i.e. runrmtcmd, or PC Scheduled jobs, etc).

Not being able to do this from the iSeries is killing
my argument with management to expand our iSeries' &
NOT our server farm.  But when we are able to access
any application's (including iSeries) database from an
application residing on a PC, and not from an iSeries,
then my argument becomes moot.

I have discussed this with people at IBM & others. 
Joe Pluta at one time turned me onto the SQL 2000 JDBC
type IV driver, which helps with the SQL 2000 access,
but not the others. 

Don


--- Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the question - do you mean
> access to data in IFS 
> files with ODBC? Then it'd be no, as there is no SQL
> database in the IFS, 
> unless you were to install DB2 for Windows there -
> probably a bad idea. 
> ODBC, after all, is mostly SQL, and makes any
> program calls through the SQL 
> path.
> 
> OLE/DB might offer something, although the Client
> Access provider for 
> OLE/DB only processes database, not other types of
> files. There may be 
> other kinds of providers for various kinds of text
> files, etc., and those 
> would work, if at all, through mapped drives, I
> think. Have never used nor 
> seen such a thing.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Vern
> 
> At 10:08 AM 7/9/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> > > Is it possible to do ODBC from the IFS?  It
> seems
> > > possible but has anyone
> > > actually done it?
> >
> >I believe that this subject got thrown off track by
> a
> >reply with another question on a different subject.
> >
> >This is a question that I have asked many people,
> and
> >I believe that the answer to your question is 'NO'.
> >If anyone knows otherwise, I too, would like to
> have
> >an answer to this question or a feasable workaround
> :)
> >Don McIntyre
> 
> 
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