Re: ODBC from IFS -- MIDRANGE-L

Ouch, I hear you, Don. And can imagine the heat in your boss' office. ;-)

To me, this seems like a big blind spot on IBM's part. Concerning DRDA, IBM folk have told me that it is not their job to write a driver for another RDBMS. I can see this a bit - MS does not write an ODBC driver for the 400 - well, they may have, but they're not telling. But people are jumping on the DRDA "standard" about as fast as they are networking with SNA and token ring. More IBM "standards" or "strategic directons".

The attitude seems to be, the 400 is the SERVER, everyone else must bow down to the SERVER. It will never be a lowly CLIENT.

Small rant is over.

Vern

At 02:48 PM 7/9/2003 -0700, you wrote:

Vern,

Yes, Datadirect has what I need, but I would have to
buy a driver for each database at about $8000 per
driver.  That's why in my earlier statement I said

> yet another purchase to enable the iSeries to do the
>job that can be done by a PC on our server farm

If it was $8000 for a driver that could do all ODBC
databases, then it wouldn't have been as noisy when I
relayed the price to our Director :)  Why pay 8K for
each database when we can write an ASP application on
IIS that will access the database for next to nothing.

My problem here, as are probably in a lot of iSeries /
AS400 shops, is that our Networking technical staff
(that are in charge of all non iSeries hardware &
networking) are PC advocates and feel that the AS400
is old and outdated technology that will be gone any
day now.

Our director knows better, but has the battle between
applications staff and our technical staff.

Thanks again,
Don McIntyre

--- Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Don, you've probably been around the block, but I
> googled on JDBC +dbase
> and ran across this in a list of drivers:
>
> <http://www.datadirect-technologies.com>
>
> They claim broad coverage.
>
> Luck
>
> Vern

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