Re: Connect to AS400
| From: | James Lobley | Date: | Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:17:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Connect to AS400 | ||
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On 1/26/06, Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, January 26, 2006 2:23 pm, Justin Cook wrote:
> > We need to connect to a database on our AS400. Would this be best
> > accomplished with ODBC? If not, what is the preferred method? Thanks!
>
> The AS400 was discussed on this list, or possible on the predecessor
> list which was just php@lists.php.net back in the day when there was
> only one PHP mailing list (not counting internal developer lists).
>
> As I recall, a straight ODBC connection was not quite enough, and some
> Voodoo had to be performed to get it to work, but it was possible.
>
> I also vaguely recall that the AS400 ended up being READ-ONLY, at
> least under one variant of that voodoo...
From my experience, when the ODBC driver (for windows at least) is
installed, it defaults to read-only.
From memory, this can be changed simply by ticking a check box to allow
writes.