John,
Couldn’t you get the information via ODBC and send it through the engine (as a message) and Xlate it into XML; then deliver it to a file thread?
Of course you would have to build your own schema ot DTD.
Jim Kosloskey
email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 61 years IT – old fart.