RE: New DB2/400 Drivers Officially Released from Microsoft...

["Knezevic, Mihael" <m.knezevic@xxxxxxxx>]

it seems to me that it ain't bundled with visual studio but with the ms sql 
server. and i get the notion that the only purpose for it is getting the data 
of the db2/400 and on a ms sql server as one guy in my department is doing for 
no serious reason (he doesn't know how to handle access to db2/400) but the 
infection of microsoft in his stupid brain.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Delisi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 8:31 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: New DB2/400 Drivers Officially Released from Microsoft...
> 
> On Monday, Microsoft announced new drivers for DB2/400 as part of the
> Visual Studio 2005 product launch. 
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> The OLE DB Driver for DB2 supports connectivity over TCP/IP and can be
> considered a replacement for IBM Client Access. In this scenario, the
> customer does NOT need to license Microsoft Host Integration 
> Server 2004
> which is how the drivers were traditionally distributed.  As always,
> test your applications before replacing any other technology to ensure
> 100% compatibility.  The drives are a free download.
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> The driver supports IBM DB2 for OS/400 V5R1 and later to 
> support an SNA
> LU6.2 or TCP/IP network connection.
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> Here is the link:
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> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D09C1
> D60-A13C-4
> 479-9B91-9E8B9D835CDC&displaylang=en
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> Thanks,
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> 
> David deLisi 
> 
> Microsoft Corporation
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> www.microsoft.com\midrange <http://www.microsoft.com/midrange> 
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