RE: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl

assuming the system with perl is LINUX why not use the ODBC driver that
comes with the LINUX client access.

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/linux/



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Bryan Dietz
Aktion Associates



rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/14/2005 05:18:32 PM:

> The only hitch with that is you'd need to install Client Access (or buy
> some third party software) to get the ODBC driver. Since Client Access
> doesn't run on anything but Windows, you're SOL with it. I just did a
> quick Google search and there's some information at
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/porting/iseries/overview/iperl/
> page_4.html that may (or may not) be helpful.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 5:01 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl
>
> Actually, I think somebody hit the nail on the head and I missed
> something
> when I was thinking. Use some perl ODBC library to read and write to
> AS/400 files directly. I bet it's possible to set up an ODBC data source
> on the AS/400; I know there are ODBC libraries for perl. I think with
> that
> the problem is mostly solved and doesn't involve writing some custom
> server, no matter how much one might like to (Hi Scott, I liked your
> tutorial)
> --