Our biggest customer uses an AS400 as their database. The very limited programming I have done for them was years ago using Perl and ODBC. Most of the work we do for them currenty is done in RPG but they are now asking for stuff that is better suited to .NET, specifically ASP.NET, for their customers to view inventory on the web.



I have been looking and have some leads but if someone here has some practical expreience with something that works ( a data provider), I would sure appreciate it.

Keith Chisarik

Finding it tough to give up considering I am finding that the speed of the DataDirect provider is easily 20x the OLE one.



Here are some more details of the errors I am getting trying to use the DataDirect provider in the BO Mapper.



I called their support and they confirmed that the DB2 provider is correctly registered in the GAC and the machine.config, which I tend to believe since everything works using the native .NET tools. Perhaps I am doing something wrong that the shots will illustrate.



DataDirect says they are more than willing to do anything to help, including talk to you guys.














Keith Chisarik