AS/400 Member Tables and Universe Design

Greetings!
Anyone have experience dealing with AS/400 "member" tables in Universe Design? Is there any special trick to importing them to the UNV or is that even required for a report query to access them?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Kevin,
Did you get an answer for your question. Actually I had the same question from a customer who wants to know if we support data on AS/400.
Are we using ODBC for that?

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