Take a look here – for information on an ODBC connection..

But forget that for now. There are probably a bunch of ways to get the data from point a to b.. You could try this one..

Depending on the size of the tables and the complexity of the joins it may be worthwhile building the resulting table on the AS/400 through a scheduled job and then just pulling down that table.

Assuming you have the result table on the AS/400, use iSeries Access file transfer to download the file from the AS/400 to your Windows box with PHP on it. You can set up the transfer manually, save the transfer definition and then set up a macro to run it using whatever scheduling mechanism you have for Windows. iSeries access will let you transfer the file as CSV or you could optionally build the the file on the AS/400 with whatever seperator you want and transfer it as TEXT.

Once you have the file on the windows box you should be able to handle the data.

There is an example here that looks pretty simple that will give you an idea of what to do for that.

Have you considered running PHP on your AS/400? (Get rid of that Windows box!!) Zend core comes with V6R1.. Just sayin…

Regards
Mike

If you could at least give me a good idea of where to start searching I would appreciate it. I tried searching for information to connect the as/400 somehow so the data could be updated automatically but my searching led me to several dead ends.

Thanks Cheryl

So, how often do you need the data? And, are you pulling down data from one AS/400 file or from multiple files using a join?

In WRKQRY, you can create a data file by specifying a database file in the output type selection. You will of course need the proper authority to create the file.

If you don’t want to set up an ODBC connection, there are alternatives. For example, you could use the iSeries Access data transfer to download a file. It allows a SQL selection and will format the downloaded file to a CSV format on a windows box. You can then write a PHP program to read that file and import it into your MySQL database. All of that could be pretty much automated..

For a one-time shot, you could download the file using iSeries Access data transfer as a CSV file and then import the CSV file into your MySQL database using the “import” function in PHPMyAdmin.

For help on the import, you could Google “Import CSV file using PHPMyAdmin” – there are a lot of references.

PHPMyAdmin is a tool to manually maintain a MySQL database – if you are looking for some way to automate this you should probably be looking at setting up an ODBC connection.

Regards
Mike

Thanks
Ron

Protected Sub btnget_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnget.Click
Dim iConn As New IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.iDB2Connection()
iConn.ConnectionString = “Data Source=10.1.1.1;”
Dim OrderIn As String
OrderIn = txtOrder.Text.ToString()
Dim iCmd As New IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.iDB2Command(“SELECT your fields here FROM YOUR LIBRAY.YOUR FILE WHERE ORDER =” + ORDERIn)
iCmd.Connection = iConn
Dim iDA As New IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.iDB2DataAdapter(iCmd)
Dim lds As New Data.DataSet()
iDA.Fill(lds)
Try
iConn.Open()
GridView1.DataSource = lds
GridView1.DataBind()
Catch ex As IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries.iDB2Exception
btnget.Text = “ERROR”
Finally
iConn.Close()
End Try

End Sub

Thanks
Cheryl

OK, is your mySQL running on Windows or Linux? Have you tried searching on Google? There are lots of posts on this – a bunch of people have done it before.

Regards’
Mike

So what is your data source (“traditional” files in a library in QSYS, data from schemas, something in the IFS?)

How are you looking to import the data to MySQL? Are you looking at ODBC or something like a delimited file?

Regards
Mike