>Rumba from Wall Data works great. Got it working with ODBC and had live data coming from AS400. Computer locked up a couple of times and supposedly the incomplete queries ran the processor up to max and batch processing couldn't occur. Sounded funny to me, but the AS400 police are watching me now. Called me a 'hacker' Don't know, politics just ruin productivity. Thanks for the info. It works great.

O yes!! they'll call you like that because mainframe guys can't understand that programers now can speak many "languages and dialects" thanks to the great variety of tools out there!... and yes I agreed politics ruin productivity,and not only that also hold the IT progress.

Some IT guys at the company were I'm working now are very worry that we also 'hacking' their systems using these Rumba tools. One of the uses that we had implemented is the conversion of MainFrame applications into Win32 aplications having as a backend the MainFrame itself... this concept is out of the scope of their understanding ...