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Re: Re: BI / Reporting tools

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll give you one...applies to both OS/400 and IBM i..

It uses a published protocol for remote database communication (DRDA).

So anybody can write a driver to talk to it. In fact, both Oracle and
Microsoft have done so.

AFAIK, The reverse is (still) not true. The only way to talk to Oracle or
MS SQL Server is through a driver provided by the vendor (or reverse
engineering said driver).

Hm. Maybe I'm not getting your full point. ODBC is a "published
protocol" (the 'O' in ODBC even stands for "open"). So I'm guessing
you mean more than what ODBC gives you, otherwise all major databases
would qualify as open in this sense.

I don't know much about DRDA, but from what I could gather through
Googling, DRDA may well be a "deeper" and more comprehensive thing
than ODBC. So I am not dismissing your point, I just don't have full
understanding yet.

John Y.

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