Hi!

When ODBC driver allows access to AS/400 server through internet, you can connect to the database remotely using the IP address of the server (or server internet name) instead of server machine name in the local network. At least this works for SQL Server. however, such connaction is quite unstable that require a lot of effort in the client application to track all errors related with connection break at any moment. In particular, it is extremely hard to do with remote views, because re-connect and update data after connection is broken require complex programming. It is much more simple when using ADO recordsets.

There are a lot of other approaches with no use of remote views. For example, build COM object and access it remotely through DCOM to get data. Another example - transfer data using low-level protocol like HTTP or FTP (you can use wwIPStuff library from West-Wind for this).


>I have several remote views to AS/400 databases; I from these extract information in order to generate datas statistics and then create graphics of those datas.
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>The users that analyze the generated information are in different latitudes
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>I would like knowledge if any road exists that I could take in order to develop a system in VisualFox where the user could enter to the system and see the information and the graphs from Internet.
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>TIA