Barry Brooks asked: >>I have a client who is running D3 and Universe on seperate servers. >>They wish to be able to directly access D3 files from Universe. Does >>anyone know the best (or any) way to do this. D3 and Universe are >>running on Linux Redhat 9.
Ross Suggested: >You MIGHT be able to use ODBC from UV, but ODBC with D3 has >never been "great" - depending on volumes, there is always >OSFI (on D3) being mapped to a UV type 19 file ? Sorry Ross, that won't work because the D3 ODBC client driver is Win32 only. Barry said he's running on Linux. Although he CAN create some code in a Win32 middle-tier and use that as a hub between the Linux boxes. Chuck suggested: >Set up the D3 files you need to access as FSI (external file >format) and point to them from UniVerse (SAMBA, VisionFS, or > file mapping) as Type 19. No... FSI doesn't work like that, FSI files are still mini blobs unto themselves. And here too, there is no FSI over Linux. Barry - there are a few ways to do this, one of which might be to use CallHTTP (or another HTTP call) from Universe and FlashCONNECT or a home-grown HTTP interface with D3. The solution will depend on how transparent or tightly integrated you want these environments to be. If you want a READ in UV to read a record in D3 then some creative coding is required, but it's possible. I'll be happy to discuss solutions with you for free but some coding/services will be required to make this happen. Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Former DBMS Product Manager, Raining Data, including D3. Currently specializing in communications interfaces for MV platforms and applications. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
