RE: Where do I get drivers to allow a GIS software package

["Wilt, Charles" <WiltC@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You don't need DB2 Connect, which is an extra cost item.

iSeries Client Access includes ODBC, OLEDB, and .NET drivers for accessing the i5 DB.

The drivers are no-charge parts of iSeries Access, which also includes iSeries Navigator and its "Run
SQL Scripts" utility.  So you don't have to pay for a CA license to install and use them.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Odom
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:45 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Where do I get drivers to allow a GIS software package

Keith,
 
Thanks very much for the information.   The folks that want to talk to DB2/400 wish to do so from ESRI
ArcMap 9.2 and ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.  I'd like to show them their long held position that the i5 and
DB2/400 is hard to access is not true.  I'm thinking they would have to use something like DB2 Connect
and the DB2/400 driver therein and configure the access via Microsoft's ODBC configuration function.
Am I going down the right road and if so please steer me correctly on how to configure their Windows
applications, mentioned above, so they can query DB2/400 from those applications.  If I'm not going
down the right road, please steer me correctly as well.
 
Thanks,
 
Dave