> Or better yet, is there a way using Ent Mgr to attach (for example) an
> AS400 database much the same way you would attach a MS-SQL db?

"Scott McNair" <scott.mcnair@sfmco.takethispartout.com> wrote in message
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> Scott McNair <scott.mcnair@sfmco.takethispartout.com> wrote in
> news:Xns94EC6AFDE5D57sfmco@207.46.248.16:
>
> > Or better yet, is there a way using Ent Mgr to attach (for example) an
> > AS400 database much the same way you would attach a MS-SQL db?
>
> As a follow-up, in case I wasn't clear:
>
> I'm looking for essentially a "Universal Enterprise Manager" - one that
> allows me to access multiple data sources in much the same way I would
> access an MS-SQL data source with MS Ent Mgr.

"Scott Morris" <bogus@bogus.com> wrote in message
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> Things like this are generally not cheap. One example (which I have never
> used).
>
> http://www.embarcadero.com/products/dbartisan/
>
> "Scott McNair" <scott.mcnair@sfmco.takethispartout.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns94EC71792B761sfmco@207.46.248.16...
> > Scott McNair <scott.mcnair@sfmco.takethispartout.com> wrote in
> > news:Xns94EC6AFDE5D57sfmco@207.46.248.16:
> >
> > > Or better yet, is there a way using Ent Mgr to attach (for example) an
> > > AS400 database much the same way you would attach a MS-SQL db?
> >
> > As a follow-up, in case I wasn't clear:
> >
> > I'm looking for essentially a "Universal Enterprise Manager" - one that
> > allows me to access multiple data sources in much the same way I would
> > access an MS-SQL data source with MS Ent Mgr.
>
>

> I used DBArtisan (with MS SQL 6.5 and Sybase dbs) and it worked great.
> I was never able to use it with some DB2 (mainframe) databases but
> this was over 7 years ago, so the technology might have caught up.
> Phil