RE: news400 goes negative on IBM?

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

I was not talking RPG here. I was talking SQL in any flavour: SQL/400, rmbedded 
SQL (in any HLL language), SQL-CLI (in any HLL language) . I won't buy it can 
only be done with a JDBC connection (also an SQL variant).

Or should I install DB/2 for xxx (where xxx is the other platform) to get one 
(tiny) function operational?

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 21-5-05 at 23:37 Joe Pluta wrote:

>> Because that latter is not a real simple possibility, the AS/40 is not that 
>> open, at all.
>
>Carel (and others), the fact that RPG does not natively access other
>databases has no bearing on how "open" the platform is.  RPG is
>primarily designed to allow "below the hood" access to iSeries data.  To
>ask it to do anything else natively is a little silly, especially when I can:
>
>1. Call another program to do it.
>2. Call a Java method to do it.
>3. Write a SPECIAL file exit to do it.
>
>Now, where open-ness comes into play is whether each database has a Type
>4 JDBC driver.  If they do, then I can access them from any Java
>program.  If not, they aren't open, but it's no fault of the iSeries.