Re: AS/400 OLE DB support (project ligthning)

[Jim Suiter <jsuiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Original message at the end)

At the risk of being extremely late on this thread, I will reply.

Doesn't linking to the As400 file via ODBC bypass all this OLE DB support stuff?
>From what I've read on this thread, the issues that have come up sound like
issues that might be encountered using Visual Basic to create the connection.

Creating a new ODBC connection is not too hard -- I think I've seen some
documentation on this list serve before not too long ago -- you can do it
through Control Panel or Client Access.

Once the DSN (I think that is the term) is created, then in Access do a link
to files of type ODBC Databases.  Your DSN will be listed; select it; then
select your file.

If I'm totally missing the boat on this one I'm sorry; but I've done exactly
what the original poster was inquiring about using this strategy.

Jim Suiter


>
>I am currently working on a project where i am trying to use the AS/400 OLE DB 
>support. What i am trying to do is write a microsoft access97  module to 
>exctract data from the AS/400 and put it in an access data base and also the 
>other way around (extract access data and write it to an AS/400 file). I 
>followed the example in the red book "A fast path to AS/400 client/server
using 
>AS/400 OLE DB support".
>
>When the module get activated, i get an error stating that the
ADODB.Connection 
>object type is not a valid type. I have installed the SDK but no luck. I think 
>that something must be missing or not configured corretly on my pc (win95).
>
>Does anyone out there do something like this? What is required on the PC?
>
>BTW I called IBM for support on this, and i was told that this is not
coverd by 
>software maintenance and that i would get billed for any helpthat i would 
>received!
>
>Denis Robitaille
>Cascades Inc
>819 363 5187
>fax 819 363 5177
>DRobitaille@cascades.com
>
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