All my installations seems to have negative values in the sample_ms column. Seems to be a bug or an overflow .

You can define variables in SSIS packages and use them in expressions in source and destination connections.

Here is some reading

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141105.aspx

Here is a nice article on HTTP endpoints on SQLServer and which scenarios you should and should not use.

Couple of things from my experience

If you are sharing the Source or Destination connection objects then it will slow down. Use different set of source and destination connections for all...

When you isstall the iSeries Client software it has an option to choose the ODBC Driver to be installed. You need to have this installed wherever you are running your...

You could use the use the utility Curl . Its available for Windiows , UNIX and Linux