I'm coming in to this a little late and may have missed it, but what is
the database format for the PC application ?
If it is accessible via ODBC, OLEDB or ADO, you can write your own Java
or VB programs or use a vendor tool such as our RPG2SQL Integrator
software or IBM DB2 Connect to keep the data in sync via an ILE RPG
program.
Using RPG2SQL you can do live real-time access to the PC application
data with no data transfer, just good old RPG coding !!
And by the way, the IFS is a great place to store any and all PC
documents. We have customers with several million IFS files being
stored for retreival with our WebDocs software.
We also recently discovered that a single user profile can only store 10
million documents. Who would have guessed it, but it's buried in one of
the OS/40 manuals :-)
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 7
date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:13:34 -0800 (PST)
from: Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Use of the IFS
you can't because its a PC application that prints shipping labels and
some other things.
The updates are actually not so frequent but they do occur. It's a kind
of complicated situation but sometimes Sales will discount an item on
the i, while the shipping is working. So then I have to tell them to
refresh. It would be better obviously to be in sync.
Alot of people are suggesting that this is a Business Process flow
issue. You are right but this framework is not going to change so I am
merely trying to improve on what I have.
midrange.com
