Re: database name for ado.net

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you google IBMi ODBC Query there are a bunch of samples. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 1
date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:27:19 -0400
from: Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: database name for ado.net

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