RE: Access iSeries from windows and odbc question

Our business partner told us that we needed to purchase a separate copy of 
client access even to use the odbc drivers, quoted price was $250 a copy


On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:55:12 -0400, Wilt, Charles wrote
> 1) Look up iSeries Netserver in the info center.
> 
> 2) What $250 are you talking about?  The ODBC driver is free you 
> don't need a client Access license to use that portion.  The same 
> goes for Ops-Nav and a few other pieces of CA.  In general, the big 
> piece you do need a license for is the 5250 emulation.
> 
> Charles Wilt
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
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> > This is actually two questions in one, can someone point me 
> > in the direction 
> > I need to go in order to figure out, learn and expirment with 
> > accessing docs 
> > and files on our iSeries via a windows XP Pro workstation? 
> > Without using FTP 
> > that is.
> > 
> > In addition, aside from the ODBC drivers that comes with 
> > iSeries Access for 
> > Windows, is there any other way for us to access tables and 
> > PF and LF from 
> > some of our inhouse applications? I'd hate to pay 250 each 
> > just for the ODBC 
> > drivers.
> > 
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