RE: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl

I thought the ODBC license for client access was free....not requiring a
separate license key.

Anyway, I am not looking at doing this on windows, rather from a freebsd
box 

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Haas, Matt
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:19 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: accessing PF from freebsd machine with perl


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

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of brian
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)