RE: C#.Net connection to DB2

I believe DB2/Connect does have a license key associated with it.

The IBMi ACS Windows Package Drivers which includes an ADO.Net, OLEDB and ODBC driver does not. As long as the customer has an IBMi license the ACS drivers can be used with no license keys or additional costs from my understanding.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phn: (612) 315-1745
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message: 1
date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:36:12 +0000
from: Michael Quigley - Sec <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: C#.Net connection to DB2

Does using the .NET Data Provider require a Db2/Connect license? I seem to recall we ran into the need for some sort of license to use it. Maybe we just had the configuration wrong?

Thanks,
Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Justin Taylor
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 1:26 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: C#.Net connection to DB2

The ACS Windows package includes a .NET Data Provider that allows .NET
to talk to Db2, but AFAIK that must be installed on each Windows
client. It does allow you to connect to Db2 and/or execute native ILE
programs (via
Db2 stored procedures).

Another option would be to host webservices on IBMi and connect to
them from Windows.

We originally used the first method, but more recently we've been
doing the second.

HTH