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QUESTION POSED ON: 07 April 2005
I work with several applications that are user account maintenance intensive. I would like to build Client Access macros that could be run interactively. Essentially, I want to build a script that I can kick off and allow to run to a certain point in my data entry screens, at which point I need to enter specific data, after which, I want to have the macro take off again after I hit the Field Exit key.xc

I'd like help building an application that could read data from a Microsoft Access file on my workstation, and either modify a file on the iSeries directly, or use scripting and the iSeries applications' data entry screens, read a record from the PC file and populate the file on the iSeries. Can you point me in the right direction?


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It is possible to access external data from the iSeries using JDBC. If the access has a pure JDBC driver, then you may do the following:

* Install the driver.
* Write a small Java program to read the access file.

The Java program can be wrapped in a user-defined table function as described very nicely here.

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