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Gary Long <garyl@magna.com> wrote:
>>From: d4dmitc@sr.pacbell.com (Dave Mitchell)
>>Subject: Vis Basic to MVS DB2
>>Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 20:41:34 GMT
>>
>>We are converting our existing COBOL/DB2/CICS apps to a Visual Basic
>>front-end (running on Win/NT or Win 3.11) but the data will remain in
>>DB2 on MVS.  Has anyone had experience with doing this - what will I
>>need to get thru.  I have had suggestions of using a WIN NT server
>>with SNA Server and either STARSQL or Wall Data's RUMBA and I have
>>heard to use IBM's DDCS.  Any other suggestions?  We are very new at
>>this and right at the beginning, so any suggestions, comments would be
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Dave
>
>Dave, it depends a lot on the type of application you are creating.  If it is 
>retrieval-intensive -- DSS or whatever -- then a DBMS gateway such as DDCS is 
>the right choice.  If it is transaction-oriented, then I highly recommend 
>IBM's CICS External Client Interface (ECI).
>
>For transacations, ECI is easy and clean.  Works like a charm.
>
>Your PC can send a message directly to a CICS/ESA COBOL program via SNA.  
>(ECI also works with to CICS/AIX.)  The CICS COBOL program gets the message 
>in the COMMAREA and replies the same way.  You can access data of any kind, 
>and also reuse legacy code.
>
>Only problem with the ECI is that it is C-oriented making it a little hard
>to use from PB or VB.  For our Application Generator we wrote a DLL to make 
>it easy (not a real big deal).
>
>-- Gary
>
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>Gary Long                                                glong@magna.com
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