Re: Connect to IBMi DB2 using an OLE DB connection

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dean, maybe this will help.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/tcpip-ports-required-ibm-i-access-and-related-functions



On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 1:30 PM Dean Eshleman <Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks every one for the suggestions.  It took me awhile to respond
> because I have been having problems reading the message from the forums.  I
> use Thunderbird to read the messages and now that I'm back in the office,
> it only succeeds half the time.  The other times, I get a time out message
> when it tries to connect to the gmane server.  Not sure what the problem is
> since today it worked just fine.
>
> I looked at the links that Rob provided, but I was unable to find out what
> ports the connections would use.  I need to know that because the
> consultants will be going thru our firewall to get to our machine and we
> need to open up those ports.
>
> As to why they are using OLE DB instead of ODBC, I don't know.  I may ask
> them about that.
>
>
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