Re: DRDA Connection Support (was news400 goes negative on IBM?)

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

The "we" part could be to create an Open Source project to accomplish 
something similar.  A DRDA-Bridge project might be possible. The biggest 
issue is (besides the fact that I don't see a lot of enthusiasm for RPG 
open source projects) is that the DRDA implementations are vendor 
specific.  We'd need to know quite a bit about each particular DB in 
order to write a server for each target DB.

You could possibly write a DRDA-ODBC bridge that would talk to ODBC/Ole 
DB providers and return DRDA compliant data but that would be two middle 
ware traversals that would hamper performance (my guess).

I know nothing about the DRDA spec and *some* about ODBC/JDBC specs.  It 
would be a useful project but I would guess given our own personal 
project lists, an open source implementation wouldn't happen.

Pete Helgren


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I agree Joe.  What can we do about it?
> Does MS have the equivalent of IBM's Design Change Request?
>
> Rob Berendt
>