Open Access - RPG Edition now available through Virtual Loaner Program

I'm happy to say that the Virtual Loaner Program for partners of IBM has the installation CD image available for putting on a 6.1 or 7.1 VLP reservation. If you are a business partner (PartnerWorld), it's all there to use.

At 6.1 there are some PTFs to be applied, as well. You'll have to do that yourself - and you'll need to apply any cumes and other group PTFs yourself, in order to get current. But you can use IBM's bandwidth and download images directly.

The CD image is to be found under the 7.1 directory but I think it's fine to use on 6.1 - someone please correct me there, if necessary.

Thanks to Kent Milligan for adding extra weight to my VLP service request to install 5733-OAR.

I believe Aaron Bartell wrote recently about becoming a partner without going through TOO many hoops!

I posted a little bit ago that I'm working on a simple handler for remote database access using out RPG2SQL product - I have a good functional one that handles only OPEN/READ/CLOSE at this time - it does require our product in addition to Open Access - RPG, of course. We are considering various ideas as to distribution to our customers or prospects. Anyone curious about it, feel free to contact me - I'm happy to show it off little. And I can talk some about my experience in writing the handler in a vendor-agnostic fashion. And I recommend Jon's article on it recently - helped me a lot. Maybe I'll write something up, as well. We'll see!

HTH
Vern