Re: database name for ado.net

[Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard (or others),

Is there a simple set of instructions or article for a simple Win/Linux
application to use ODBC to connect to IBM i. They are stuck on thinking
they had to download DB2 for their server...and the licensing of things
like DB2 Connect. This is a simple app to retrieve some data and merge into
Word or PDF docs...
Having never been on the Win side, not familiar with setup. They do most of
their work in SQL Server and MongoDB.
Jim

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> What Steve said.  Or you could use ODBC.
>
> You should normally not need to specific the database name in the
> connection string if you use ODBC.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>
> message: 1
> date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:47:20 -0400
> from: Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: database name for ado.net
>
> A simple question - a win developer creating external app to merge Word
> docs with i data..
> asking for database name for connection string.
>
> Is our database name same as what i see in STRSQL  (which is some old
> system serial#..) ?
>
> Message . . . . :   Current connection is to relational database S786C5B0.
>
> Jim Franz
>
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> message: 3
> date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:56:05 +0000
> from: Stephen Landess <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: database name for ado.net
>
> WRKRDBDIRE *ALL
>
>
> Regards,
> Steve Landess
> (512) 289-0387
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