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.
- April 22, 2008: Version 1.6 of System i Access for Linux V5R4 is now available. This version include minor updates to the emulator and improved UTF-8 support for ODBC.
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- April 22, 2008: Version 1.0 of System i Access for Linux V6R1 is now available. This new version has IPv6 support, Remote Command Unicode support and several improvements to the ODBC driver.
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- June 4, 2007: Version 1.4 of iSeries Access for Linux V5R4 is now available. This version has several font issues addressed for Russian, Chinese, German and Japanese languages.
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- October, 2006: Version 1.2 of iSeries Access for Linux V5R4 is now available. This version includes minor updates to ODBC and EDRS.
- July 7, 2006: iSeries Access for Linux V5R4 is now available and supports additional 64-bit platforms (PowerPC-64 and x86-64). The ODBC and EDRS drivers are included in all the packages as well as a new toolkit. The 5250 emulator is not included with the 64-bit packages.
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