Re: as400

Roberto Favaro wrote: >I'm asking if it's possible to have informix running on an AS400 >cause i have a lot of customer that have this system >and they want to remain on as400 for a lot. >.... >if anybody know anything about it... > I don't think that you can run Informix on an AS/400. However, you can run Informix on a Unix machine that is networked to the AS/400. I had customers whose primary machine was the AS/400. I ran a token ring network cable between an IBM RISC 6000 and the AS/400 network. Using a telnet program on the AS/400, you can connect to the Unix machine and run Informix. The main problem was differences in keyboards and that fact that the AS/400 terminal communicates with its host using block mode transaction rather than character mode transaction. What I did was to use the telnet program on the AS/400 to reprogram the function keys on the AS/400 terminal. We were trying to allow users to access a perform screen and we placed the codes that exist on the perform ring menu under function keys of the AS/400. It worked fairly well. Randall Young ryoung@bix.com