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.
- October 15, 2010: Version 1.0 of IBM i Access for Linux 7.1 is now available. This version includes minor updates to the emulator, several NLS-related fixes, and connectivity enhancements.
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- August 17, 2010: Version 1.2 of IBM i Access for Linux 6.1 is now available. This version includes minor updates to the emulator, several NLS-related fixes, and connectivity enhancements.
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- 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.
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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