R8 scheduled agent to access db on R5 server

Dear all,

Is it possible to access a db on an R5 server from a scheduled agent running on an R8 server? Since R5 does not have the Trusted Servers field, I wonder if there’s a way to do this.

I try to do this by:

call db.OpenByReplicaID(“[R5 servername]”, replID), this works fine manually, but as far as I know it won’t work with a scheduled agent.

Thanks!