Re: Data Link Properties Question from VB.NET

Thomas,

I don't believe "conn.Open("Provider = IBMDA400; Data Source =
144.162.90.48")" can be a complete connection string. 

IBMDA400 is the IBM OLE/DB provider, that's fine. Data Source is the
address of your 400, again fine. However, what user and password would
you like it to use? You're not supplying one. I suppose it's possible
the provider will use the defaults (if any) from OpsNav, but I've never
tried. 

Since you're using .NET I would strongly recommend abandoning the OLE/DB
driver and using the native .NET provider instead. Here's a connection
string I know will work for the .NET provider (it's from code I'm
working on now).

"DataSource=<Youri5>;UserID=<YourUser>;Password=<YourPassword>;Naming=Sy
stem;LibraryList=<LibraryList>;ConnectionTimeout=5;CheckConnectionOnOpen
=true;SortSequence=SharedWeight;SortLanguageID=ENU;DataCompression=true"

-Walden


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