RE: news400 goes negative on IBM?

Don,

I've looked into this... here a summary that you should also be able to find in the archives.

It appears that Oracle provides 3 (ok 4) products related to
DB2/400 <--> Oracle access:

1) Oracle Transparent Gateway for DB2/400
        --runs on iSeries
       --Handles Oracle --> DB2/400 access
       --TCP/IP
2) Oracle Transparent Gateway for DRDA
        --runs on a host system (Windows, UNIX, Linux, ect)
        --handles Oracle --> DB2/400 access (or any other DRDA server)
        --uses SNA or TCP/IP
3) Oracle Access Manager for AS/400
        --runs on iSeries
        --Handles DB2/400 --> Oracle access
        --uses TCP/IP

4) Oracle Generic Connectivity
        --runs on Oracle System
        --Handles Oracle --> DB2/400 access
        --uses ODBC or OLEDB driver to access DB2/400

IBM Provides one product:

1) DB2 Information Integrator (formally DataJoiner)
        --runs on a (non-iSeries) host system
        --Handles DB2/400 --> Oracle access
        --uses TCP/IP


Now it appears Oracle packages options 1-3 together at a cost of $35,000.  Option 4 is built into the Oracle DB software already.


Note that the way you use Oracle Access Manager for AS/400 is via embedded or interactive SQL that includes the CONNECT TO statement.  You can't set up a DDM file and use native RPG I/O.


HTH,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:38 PM
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> Vernon,
> 
> I'll be at Summit in a week and will hit the Oracle guys on 
> this further,
> but is the A/M a bidirectional pipeline?  Can you hit DB2/400 
> tables from
> the oracle host as well as his the Oracle tables from OS/400? 
>  We talking
> something as simple as OVRDBF or a bit more complex?
> 
> Don in DC
>