Re: news400 goes negative on IBM?

[Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/21/05, Carel Teijgeler <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> Your last sentence may open a dead horse discusion, as people writing RPG-CGI programmes might disagree.
> 
> The problem in this discussion is, that the AS/400 is an "open system", which allows you to connect from other platforms to retrieve data from the AS/400 (ODBC, OLE/DB, for instance). But from the AS/400 you cannot connect to other platforms (non-AS/400) that easily, unless you have DB2 installed and (I assume) the DRDA driver running as a task (then this should also connect to something like SQL Server or Borland's InterBase).
> 
> Because that latter is not a real simple possibility, the AS/40 is not that open, at all.

To be fair, while it is great that asp.net code running on a $10 per
month shared host site can connect to a database on an as400 somewhere
out there on the internet, that is not a very secure way of doing
things.  The user name and password are included in the connection
string and I dont know how to secure that link.

As I understand things, we are all supposed to be using web services
to interact with other systems in the network.  Which should be a
leveler in terms of what all systems are capable of doing.

-Steve