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IBM i Access for Linux allows you to access the DB2 for i using its ODBC Driver and to establish a 5250 session to an IBM i from a Linux client.

Highlights:

  • IBM i Access for Linux is available for both Intel and Power PC or an IBM i logical partition (LPAR) platforms.
  • Supported platforms include 32-bit (i386 and PowerPC) and 64-bit (x86-64 and PowerPC).
  • IBM i Access for Linux works with IBM i with V5R1 and later OS/400 and i5/OS.
  • A toolkit in V5R4 includes header files for building custom applications.
  • Extended Dynamic Remote SQL (EDRS) is available for all platforms.
  • IBM i Access for Linux 5250 emulation includes support for Kerberos and Single Sign-On (SSO). Also, the 5250 emulation works with Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and Virtual Network Computing (VNC) via -STAND_ALONE command line option.

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IBM i Access for Linux includes a 5250 emulator, access to the DB2 for i5/OS using its ODBC driver, a Remote Command (rmtcmd) utility to run IBM i commands, and a library and headers to build custom applications that can easily communicate with the IBM i operating system.

The following new capabilities are included with the V6R1 release:

  • Remote Command Unicode API support: The remote command Unicode interface cwbRC_RunCmdW now flows Unicode data to IBM i. IBM i must be at V6R1, or later.
  • IPv6 support for the IBM i Access toolkit: The ODBC, Remote Command, and other utilities are supported over an IPv6 network. 5250 sessions are not supported over IPv6.

Enhancements to the ODBC driver:

  • The ODBC driver now handles stored procedures compiled with different date/time formats. No matter which date/time format is used when you create the procedure, the result sets return the date/time format specified when executing the procedure.
  • Extended indicator support. INSERT and UPDATE SQL prepared statements do not require the user to specify a value for each field used in the sentence. Instead, you can specify an indicator to use the default value for a specific field or to ignore the field in the sentence. This enhancement can increase performance and offer a better way to use prepared statements.
  • Increased length of cursor names to 128 characters. With this change application providers can generate unrepeatable cursor names easily and with more space to better name the cursors.
  • Query storage limit. You can set parameter QRYSTGLMT to specify a storage limit for a query. This new parameter prevents execution of a query by comparing the specified storage limit with the estimated storage usage of the query. This new ODBC driver sets the parameter in the connection string.
  • DB2 support for decimal float data type.

 
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