RE: want to allow easy home access to iSeries (alternate solution?)

[Luke Gerhardt <lgerhardt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thinking outside of the box, there may be a number of ways to accomplish 
providing them with what they need *without* connecting them to a 5250 
session.  I have a number of pages on our site that connect to our '400 
using PHP or (classic) ASP, pull the needed data based on criteria they 
key into the page, and then display it on screen.  I could use any of a 
number of free utilities on the '400 to email then an Excel file 
instead, if requested.

So, perhaps the best answer is in a totally different vein 
altogether...  Just a thought!

On 10/4/2011 11:54 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We have a handful of distributors that need to get on to do forecasting
> and don't have any network credentials so a VPN isn't something
> management wants to set up for them.