DB2 Connectivity Trough ADO Objects in Adobe Form Designer

Hi,
We are using
Adobe Workflow Server 6.2 and
Adobe Form Designer 5 to develop forms. In forms we have to display some information retrieved from IBM's DB2 database at two different stages. First at the beginning of the process, for which we have scripts in the process which are working fine. Second at run time, i.e., the user will enter ID of an employee and we have to retrieve the corresponding information of that employee. For that we are using ADO objects, provided in the form designer.
The problem that we are facing is that these forms uses ActiveX controls and they are executed on the client's PC. At run time when we try to access the DB2 database we get an ODBC error:
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified, because the DSN is on the server not on the client's PC. The forms are working fine on those PC that have DB2 client installed on them.
We want that ADO object to be executed on the server not on the client's PC. Is there any way or doing so? Or is there any other solution?
Please let me know asap as I have been facing this problem for many days.
Thanks.
--Khan.

Khan--
Your best bet in my opinion would be to drop the use of the Adobe ADO Object and switch to one of the following db connectivity scenarios.
- MS Remote \ RDS; has some MS security draw backs but allows remote access to a db from a single DSN.
"+" : Much faster to deliver
"-" : Have to work around MS server \ browser security issues
- Custom solution using xml DOM \ SOAP calls to pass your data requirements to an ASP \ ASP.NET component. This component would be used to execute the sql statement read from xml package then return that result back to the form.
"+" : Increase in performance due to server side execution, very little MS Security implications
"-" : Not a quick solution to build as it involves many different components to function
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