Re: ODBC FROM iSeries - huh?

["John Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Joe Pluta


> Yes, my statement does confuse the two terms.  Perhaps because it's
> confusing, or perhaps because the terms are sort of inseparable.  If I
have
> an SQL program on OS-A and I want it to talk to DBMS-1, then I need driver
> OS-A/DBMS-1.  In order to run with DBMS-2, I need driver OS-A/DBMS-2.  To
> run on another platform, I need ALL the drivers for the various target
> databases for that platform.
>
> Am I starting to understand?

Based upon the post that I extracted your statement from, I think you
understand perfectly well. :-)  As you've already stated, ODBC drivers are
not portable across OS's. But that is not the same thing as saying that SQL
isn't portable.


Regards,

John Taylor