Re: New application using remote databases from RPG program

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

I believe you got a little mis-information about DRDA - that connection 
affects only SQL-based access. Native IO is still going to work with 
local files or with DDM files.

IIRC!
Vern

sjl wrote:
> I'm not sure where to post this, but I'm sure David will correct me if I'm 
> wrong in posting it here...
>
> I'm working for a multinational company which uses JDE World software.
>
> We are preparing to build an application which will pull inventory data from 
> 5 different LPAR's which contain 52 different JDE environments.
>
> This application will reside in a special JDE environment on one of those 
> LPAR's.
>
> When asked for what technologies were available, I indicated that we could 
> use:
>
> 1) DDM files
> 2) Embedded SQL to remotely connect to each system (DRDA)
> 3) JDBC to access data on remote systems
>
>
>   
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> One of the managers of the department which will be using the data (not an 
> AS/400 - IBM I guy) said that DDM files were too legacy (his exact words 
> were "1970's") of an approach, and one of our operations guys suggested that 
> we use the embedded SQL approach instead.
>
> I believe that this approach (using DRDA), although very 'new millennium', 
> is also going to be much more difficult to implement.
>
> After a meeting with IBM yesterday, they indicated (what I already knew) 
> when using DRDA that once connected to the remote database that all database 
> access is now occuring on the REMOTE system, and to read data from the 
> remote system and write it to a database file on the LOCAL system would 
> require either:
>
>   
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