Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

Michael,

Your last sentence may open a dead horse discusion, as people writing RPG-CGI 
programmes might disagree.

The problem in this discussion is, that the AS/400 is an "open system", which 
allows you to connect from other platforms to retrieve data from the AS/400 
(ODBC, OLE/DB, for instance). But from the AS/400 you cannot connect to other 
platforms (non-AS/400) that easily, unless you have DB2 installed and (I 
assume) the DRDA driver running as a task (then this should also connect to 
something like SQL Server or Borland's InterBase).

Because that latter is not a real simple possibility, the AS/40 is not that 
open, at all.

Just my 2 Euro cents.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 20-5-05 at 17:41 Michael Ryan wrote:

>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.