RE: possibly OT: developing for AS/400 on other archs

[David Gibbs <dgibbs@xxxxxxx>]

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> I want to develop some applications that run on winblows, mac, linux,
> whatever but access the DB on the AS/400.  I know ASNA makes
> a product to
> do so on win32, but you have to buy their product :(  Does
> IBM have a way
> that is platform independant (or ported to many platforms) that allows
> apps running on other machines to do database operations on
> the AS/400?
> Hopefully something similar to the MySQL or Postgres API?

Sounds like a perfect job for Java!

Database access via JDBC (using the Open Source Java Toolkit).

david