>> Thank you for answering my question. I've been reading your e-book >about Base and found a lot of stuff about connecting to an external base. >But >a >question remains : If I automatically (like via an autostart macro) >connect to >my three databases, will they appear in Base's GUI ? > > >No. If you want to use the data from multiple connections, I expect that >you would need to manually set data in the GUI. I might be wrong, of >course. Drew can probably speak authoritatively to this (If you compare >what he understands about base to what I understand, I am not worthy to >polish his shoes - and he is a nice guy <grin>).
>> By the way, I've also been trying to change the connection string to >use something like >"jdbc:as400://server_ip/base1;jdbc:as400://server_ip/base2" (i've >tried several syntaxes), but I have an error msg saying that the extra >connection parameters are ignored. Am I missing something or is it >specific to >OOo Base ? > > >Ummm. Ummmm. I needed to look that up.... You are setting >protocol to jdbc >sub-protocol to as400 > >Is that a valid sub-protocol? "jdbc:as400://server_ip/base1" is a correct string to connect Base to an AS400 via JDBC. I tested it several times and it works, at least enough to show you one base. But as I said, I read somewhere that you could overload the connection string by specifing several bases/connection at the same time. I was trying to figure out how, but I guess OpenOffice just drops the rest of the string, as I get a "extra connection informations discarded". Thanks for taking some time to answer me. I didn't answer right away to your last e-mail, because I was busy trying another approach : I installed the AS400 ODBC driver and extra softwares and I set up an ODBC connection using this piece of software. If you want to use several databases at the same time in Base, just create a new ODBC connection (user or system) and you can specify the main base, and the extra bases you want to connect to, separated by whitespaces. Then, if you create a new database using this new ODBC connection, you'll see all the bases you specified. I wish I could have used the JDBC driver, but it seems less complete than the ODBC one. I don't know if anyone have or will have this kind of problem, but just in case, I wanted to post this message. Thanks B. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
