How to connect Navision to AS400 Data Queue??

AndreB

I've been asked to do some research on the following subject:
Our company has multiple divisions, about half of them still running a homemade AS400 ERP, while the other half is running Navision 4.0 SP3.
The item numbers throughout the entire company are centrally stored on the AS400. To create an item in Navision you first have to start Client Access (a AS400 terminal emulator) and create an item to generate a number. This number must then be cut and pasted in Navision. This is an awful lot of work and prone to mistakes.
Does anybody know a way to make a connection between Navision and AS400? I do know that there is a program in our company that can do it somehow by using AS400 Data Queue, but the person that made this possible is no longer in the company.
I hope there is a possibility to somehow, on pushing F3, use a CodeUnit that will send a request to the AS400 server Data Queue and receive the generated item number.
We do have AS400 developers in the house, but they don't know much about Navision and I can develop in Navision but don't know AS400.

Any help or info would be very welcome,

thanks in advance.

ara3n

You might want to read about this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms963834.aspx

AndreB

Thanks for your response.
I've read the information from MS and it did give a lot of info on how to tackle the subject. I was hoping that there would be someone with a perfect solution for this. I guess we will have to develop this solution ourselves.