Re: news400 goes negative on IBM? -- MIDRANGE-L

Nah...if the iSeries is a backend database, then you don't need to have RPG
access SQL Server. You may need to have C Flat access DB2 on iSeries...I
understand that...but the reverse doesn't hold. Now, if you want to have
applications that run on the iSeries access different databases, don't write
those applications in RPG. Write it in Java. RPG is a language designed for
IBM midrange systems to access IBM midrange systems. It was never developed
to be cross platform or cross database. It's Report Program Generator for
crying out loud. Sure, I can do a lot with RPG, and I do...but it's not the
language for cross platform applications - it's the language for a
centralized iSeries.

On 5/20/05 01:51 PM, "Don" <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> simple.  Most shoppes today are very hetereogeneous in systems and
> database.  It's not uncommon to see DB2/Oracle/Access/.net/SQL_Server all
> in the same shoppe or a combo thereof...and with it the need to talk back
> and forth in a realtime modality.   Capice?  Also, more and more shoppes
> will tell you that their current new development efforts are in
> .net/windows/etc and that they use DB2/400 as a backend database.
> server....tell you anything about trends?
> 
> Well, let's see, as for selling iSeries/i5/4i/as400...IBM IS now listed on
> the NY board as a services company as I recall.....
> 
> Don in DC
> 
> 
> On Fri, 20 May 2005 michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>> I can connect from my RPG program to a DB2 database on Windows or Linux.
>> I can access MySQL from Perl or something I suppose. I can't imagine why
>> I would want to access SQL Server.
>> 
>> What is the importance in being able to access different databases from
>> RPG? I can see that that could be imoprtant for a Windows developer
>> since there are so many databases out there, but why would one care
>> about accessing SQL Server from RPG?
>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?
>>> From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Fri, May 20, 2005 1:10 pm
>>> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> 
>>> On 5/20/05, Neil Palmer/DPS <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> One can only hope that after selling off the Printing Division (Lexmark),
>>>> Storage Division (Hitachi) and PC Division (Lenovo) that they might sell
>>>> off the iSeries division.  THEN we'd probably see some serious hardball
>>>> promotion from the new owners, who may just revive the AS/400 name.
>>> 
>>> Great idea to sell the as400 to another company!  The new owners will
>>> have a lot of work to do technically improving the system.  In .NET I
>>> can connect to the SqlServer, MySQL and iSeries database.  An iSeries
>>> RPG application can only use the iSeries database.  That is IBM
>>> management making that decision.
>>> 
>>> -Steve
>>> 
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