Gene -
I'm real interested in that last comment @ RUMBA. I'm just setting it up here on an NT network - Can I integrate VFP with it???

That would be really cool.....




>>>>Does anybody know of a good ODBC driver for accessing AS/400 data?
>>>>The legacy data that I'm trying to access is in the old style System/36 format, not DB2.
>>>
>>>Jim,
>>>We got our stuff from IBM (just call them). You must call them because not only will you need the ODBC driver for the pc, but you will need
>>>some special AS400 software.
>>>
>>>And don't fret ... IBM actually gives the stuff away free.
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>>Who did you talk to at IBM, the folks we talked to led us to believe that if we weren't using DB2 files, we couldn't access them with their tools. I think they wanted us to Client Access.
>>
>>What is the piece of software that runs on the AS/400? None of the other venders we contacted seemed to think we needed any. I couldn't find anybody which seemed to have the full picture of all the pieces we needed to make things work.
>
>I don't know what the software is ... IBM sent it. But Client Access
>does have ODBC so if you have that you can play with it.
>
>Calling IBM is almost useless for technical support. We got their attitude for support of VFP/VB as what are those products. "Microsoft" ... who is that?
>
>Literally, if you currently use Client Access, since it is using ODBC you should be able to make a connection with it.
>
>Have you ever used Rumba to access the AS400?