What integration is available these days at V5R4M5 to enable the IBM I
to connect to databases on other hardware platforms via SQL or languages
like RPG?
Our company runs JD Edwards World ERP that resides on the IBM I database
(DB2).
Our maintenance department elected to purchase the SQL server-based
maintenance package ePac (
http://www.epacst.com/products.html )
because ePac has a few more features than the JD Edwards World
Equipment/Plant Maintenance suite. (The users said, "We don't need to
integrate our Maintenance Purchase Orders, Work Orders, etc., into the
JDE ERP system".
Well, users are now getting tired of performing dual data entry into two
separate, unrelated systems that are not integrated with each other,
saying,
"We want the ePac Vendor master file to synchronize with the JDE vendor
master file and JDE Address book."
"We want the ePac purchase orders and P.O. Receivers to synchronize
with/ (feed into) JD Edwards purchasing."
"We want to maintain inventory in ePac and have JDE to expense all the
ePac purchases".
Recommendations from YOU?
We will probably export purchase order header and Detail data out of
ePac into a flat file and import the data into JDE P.O. header and
detail files via some custom batch process, and then scrub and validate
the data according to JDE business rules.
Because we run SQL Server 2003, not 2005, The ePac consultant's
recommendation of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid87_gci1282913,
00.html# is not an option. We don't even use the 2003 SQL Server Data
Transformation Services (DTS).
What about connectivity hosted on the i?
For an SQL interface I would prefer STRSQL CONNECT TO functionality, but
the only database this screen shows is our production IBM I and our
high-availability IBM I machine. How do I configure things so that
STRSQL CONNECT TO will show sql server databases also?
And what commercial products allow RPG programs on IBM I to read and
write databases hosted in SQL Server?
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