Re: Crystal Reports

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:03 10/08/1998 , Mark Burns wrote: 
>
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm chasing a driver DB2CLI.DLL that Crystal Reports 6.0 needs to access
> DB2/400 natively (ie. without ODBC). I've been through a lot of IBM web pages
> & the CA/400 web page & can't find any mention.
>  
> Has anyone else got/ found this DLL? Any help would be appreciated


Mark,

I believe this file is provided with DB2, which is not the same database as
DB2/400. AFAIK, there is no native driver which you can use with Crystal
Reports for accessing the AS/400. I've spent the past week setting up an Info
Server. Seagate tried to get me to use the DB2 driver too. You can't do it.
ODBC is so quick these days, you don't really need it anyway. Incidentally, the
new CA service pack for V3R1M3 solves a problem with ODBC login dialogs popping
up on the server. There was a bad API routine for validating passwords in the
earlier code. It also appears to have solved a problem with initiating the
REXEC daemon on Win95/98 machines.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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