RE: Ideas to get a serial number -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: Ideas to get a serial number
From: "Nathan M. Andelin" <nandel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:52:42 -0700
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> If you wanted to return an iSeries serial number
> to a PC running a VB app and avoid using any iSeries
> Access components, how would you do it?

The first thing that comes to mind is to store the serial number in an
iSeries physical file and retrieve it via SQL Select statement (ODBC query).

Some VB developers return values using stored procedures, also run through
an ODBC connection.

HTH,

Nathan.

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