RE: Writing to AS/400 CD-ROM -- MIDRANGE-L

Daniel,

The December Street Talk has some info about vendors who do this. 
http://www.news400.com/streettalk/street1298.htm

Basically, you have a few Choices:

a) Brandenmark - very expensive, but very full featured.  Also 
arrogant <not nice word censored>....well, that was just my opinion. 
 If money is not an issue and you need everything, this is probably 
your solution.

b) Mid-Comp international (www.midcomp.com.au ) has a nice product for 
$200.  You can download a free trial.

c) Bug Busters (www.bugbusters.net ) Suggested price of $575, but you 
pay them what you think it is worth.

d) Bavarian Consulting (www.bavarian-cons.com ) I think is somewhere 
around $150.  Made in the USA by a fellow Midrang-L'r who is trying to 
feed his cats <g>.  Not many bells and whistles, but it does work.

And of course, you can "roll your own".  But with the price of the 
last 3 products, it would be easier to use one of those.

And all of them create a set of files that you download to your PC. 
 You then use the CD Rom authoring tools that came with your CDR drive 
to actual "burn" the CDR.

All of them put the data on the CD in a Save/Restore format.

The main thing that separates Brandenmark from the rest is a) do you 
need a tape drive during the process and b) do you write your own 
QINSTAPP (for LODRUN processing).  IMHO, the tape drive and QINSTAPP 
is not worth the several THOUSAND dollar price difference.

Besides, there are plenty on this list who can help you with QINSTAPP 
& LODRUN.  It really is "a piece of cake".

Regards,
Bob Crothers
Cornerstone Communications, LLC
www.faxserver401.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   Daniel Boggs [SMTP:danbo@interaccess.com]
Sent:   Monday, December 07, 1998 11:05 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Writing to AS/400 CD-ROM

 << File: ATT00005.htm >> I'm looking into writing our save files and 
such to a CD-ROM that we can then send out to other sites and run via 
LODRUN.  As for creating this CD-ROM, I'm a a loss here.  I know there 
is one vendor out there (Bradenmark, aka Centerfield Technology) that 
has a product which interfaces with a CD recordable device on a PC and 
the AS/400, but is this the only way?  I want to include our user 
manuals as well.

Any thoughts?  Suggestions?  I've searched the web countless times on 
this and keep coming up short.  And again, in essence, I want to 
create a CD that I can install software from on an AS/400.  I know 
there was a CD-ROM juke box for the 400 a while back, but not sure if 
this is the right way, not to mention I want to make this as cost 
effective as possible.

Daniel R. Boggs
Manager, Software Development

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