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Anybody heard of this. God help me, I have a client that insists I use it w/VB. Any tips appreciated, but I doubt there will be any. The OLEDB provider for DB2/400 is severely broken, but it is better than ASNA. God. I'm doomed.
New Wish I could help
I looked at Visual RPG once, and came away cold... I think one of the clients I worked for in the '90s might have had Acceler8 (the name sounds familiar, anyway).

I assume they are using DataGate with VB...

Googling the newsgroups yielded [link|http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Asna+DataGate&hl=en&lr=&selm=34fca175.0%40news.sibs.pt&rnum=3|these results] - The overall impression I got was positive, at least support-wise. How is it broken?



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New Yes, yes.
Acceler8DB. The "standard" is to use the VB Class wizard that ships with the Asna product. My problem is that since I stopped being a Clipper programmer in 1994, I haven't accessed any database w/out using Sql. From what I see, the classes are generated for each table, with properties representing columns. You open the entire file and get access to one record at a time - via the class modules. This app will likely involve a lot of

dblTotal = 0
lngRecCount = 0
Open table...
Go to first row.
do until eof
dblTotal = dblTotal + AsnaObject.FILEFORMAT.POUNDS
lngRecCount = lngRecCount + 1
move to next row
loop
dblAverage = dblTotal/lngRecCount

That is a lot of trouble to do "select sum(pounds) as TotalPounds, avg(pounds) as AveragePounds from AS400.LIBRARY.Table" not to mention consumption of network bandwidth.

Oh well, its their money ;-)
thank you and bcnu,
Mikem
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