Re: Writing a PC program with SQL connectivity

[Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>]

do you have the windows portion of ACS installed?
That is where those DLL's exist.

or you could use jt400.jar for ODBC sonnection
I see this is the one to download from ACS download page:
IBMiAccess_v1r1_WindowsAP_English.zip

Bryan


smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 3/27/2024 1:45 PM:
> I'm not sure this is the right list for this.  If not, let me know which one
> is and I will repost it.
>
> I have been asked to write a PC .exe program that will execute an SQL
> statement on the IBM i and then exit with an appropriate return code based
> on what it found.  I know how to do all of this in C#.NET except I can't
> seem to find what I need for the SQL connection piece.
>
> I assumed that I needed a .dll installed and added into my program like I
> need to do for MySQL connections.  I found info saying that I needed
> IBM.Data.DB2.dll.  I googled it to search for a download site and found
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/download-initial-version-115-clients-and-d
> rivers.  I downloaded IBM Data Server Driver Package (DS Driver).  However,
> it looks like it is going to install DB2 on my laptop not just the .dll that
> I was looking for.
>
> Can someone help point me in the right direction for this?