Posted by Frank Arensmeier on 03/02/05 21:23

Richard, you are my man! Thank you for the hints you gave me. I will do
some digging in the list archives tonight.

Thank you.

/frank


2005-03-02 kl. 19.57 skrev Richard Lynch:

> 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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