Re: Re: BI / Reporting tools

I'll give you one...applies to both OS/400 and IBM i..

It uses a published protocol for remote database communication (DRDA).

So anybody can write a driver to talk to it. In fact, both Oracle and
Microsoft have done so.

AFAIK, The reverse is (still) not true. The only way to talk to Oracle or
MS SQL Server is through a driver provided by the vendor (or reverse
engineering said driver).

At least now-a-days, JDBC type 4 drivers alleviate some of the pain of
those closed protocols.

Charles

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:38 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doing so is often responsible for people migrating from an open system
like IBM i to an old proprietary legacy system like Dos/Windows.

Don't take this as a challenge, just an honest question. Well, questions:

In what way is IBM i an "open system"?

Is AS/400 also open, and just old and legacy; or is it proprietary in
the same way that DOS/Windows is proprietary?

Just trying to clarify terminology.

John Y.
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