[Cialug] 'Talking' with an RPG database

[Nathan C. Smith]

If the database is actually the built-in database on the AS/400 (DB2) there are a lot of tools available - finding a free one might be harder.  Some tools that should let you access the DB as an ODBC data source should be available.  The biggest problem is that it is kind of a paradigm shift to get into the IBM ecosystem if you weren't already living there.  How much data needs to be accessed?  There are a lot of programmable screen-scraper type systems - at least there were.

Sorry, it's been about 20 years since I've had hands on an AS/400.  We used to use something called Rumba for terminal emulation and I think data access too.  (http://www.tech.proact.co.uk/netmanage/netmanage_rumba.htm)


-Nate





Nathan C. Smith
McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C. | 515-288-3667  |  nathan.smith at ipmvs.com


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 2:59 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] 'Talking' with an RPG database

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> Look to IBM?  What platform is it running on?
>
AS/400, .. have never touched one myself, and the RPG chap we have available doesn't know anything about network capabilities.

	Lee
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