Re: Best way to access DB2 from Windows .asp and JavaScriptApplication

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are examples in the iSeries Access Express Toolkit. Not great but 
something to learn from. This is an option when installing iSeries Access 
Express. You can also get stuff at http://www.iseries.ibm.com/access and 
digging around, IIRC.

HTH
Vern

At 12:39 PM 5/10/2004, you wrote:
> There are many courses for ASP and hundreds of books.  ASP is the second
> most popular web server scripting languages, next to PHP.  ASP and Visual
> Basic are extremly close.  It uses VBScript as the script language (ASP is
> vbscript with the additional ASP object model).  And no, programming in ASP
> is not a "bad thing" (outside of the normal Windows thing ;) ).
>
> I say to use the OLE DB driver because with ASP, you are goign to use ADO
> for database access.  ADO uses OLE DB.  So, if you use the OLE DB driver,
> you go straight from ASP to OLE DB to Database.  If you use ODBC, you need
> to go from ASP to OLE DB to OLE DB to ODBC driver to Database.  You end up
> with an extra layer.  You can get the OLE DB driver from Client Access
> Express.  It is part of the install (ODBC and OLE DB are included).
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