Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/02/05 20:57

Frank Arensmeier wrote:
> Is there anyone who has some experience in connecting to a IBM AS/400
> server with PHP? Any ideas where to start?

I know somebody reported success back in the day on this list...

Actually, it's so far back in the day, it just might be on the predecessor
to this list, back when all PHP discussion took place pretty much on one
single list... But I don't think it's *that* far back.

Worst case, we're talking back in PHP 3.0 Beta/Release Candidate days,
possibly, but not before, as that's when I joined up.

I think they were using "AS400" or "AS 400" without the "/" in their posts.

IIRC (and that's a big "IF"):
They originally had nothing, then they got read access, then they achieved
write access, finally, but I think there was something really skanky about
getting the write access that made them not real happy with the
solution... Like I think it required having "root" be a bit too wide open
permissive on the AS/400 end.

Fortunately, the list archives of this list and even that old list are
linked from:
http://php.net/mailing-lists.php

Start with the PHP-General, as I suspect it's in there, though it *could*
be back in the old old list.

PS I'm assuming you want to connect to "the database" on an AS/400 and
that that database is the standard and only database that shipped on those
suckers. P-something, right?

PPS You'd probably be best off getting a CSV dump and migrating to
hardware/OS less, shall we say, antiquated? :-)

PPPS I'm not sure if I've ever *seen* an AS/400, so this is definitely
highly suspect info in this post.

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