>lol. You are correct , it is pick.
>I used Unidata via a broker RedBack by IBM to read and update data in there from .Net.
>Its not relational. It is file based running on mainframe I think, totally different from SQL Server architecture. We have a huge app running on Unidata/Universe DB.
>As I mentioned,the only way to talk to Unidata from a non pick client is via RedBack. But someone still must write the RBO(redback object) in pick.
>Recently they added XML capabilities to it.
>I would not want to deal with it.

Believe it or not there is a person I know who's written some sort 'middle-ware' for this...aparenly they were affilated with a software banking company out of Kansas City and somehow ended up with all the rights/source for this monster....anyway they came up with something similar ... some type of middleware that lets them talk to it via odbc. Personally I thought the guys working on it were nuts & should of just ported the data to something else but blah blah blah blah had to be done this way blah blah blah.