Follow the steps below to prepare the ODBC connection and run the .NET application.
An ODBC driver for Linux for connecting to IBM i is provided as a package of ACS (Access Client Solution). Read More
IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 25, Number 32 Doug Bidwell
Here is what is new: A new “version” of Access Client Solutions (ACS) is available for download, catch the link in the Guide. (Your “Check for Update” won’t catch it, and you won’t see the version until you get all the way into the ACS Main window, and do the Help/About.) This is an updated version, no change to the ODBC driver. This version of ACS uses the IBM GSKit version 8.0.55.31 with the latest security updates.
This is important: Prior versions of ACS have security defects. Specifically, Security Bulletin: IBM i Access Client Solutions – Windows Application Package is …
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CNX Turns The Crank On Valence Alex Woodie
CNX recently launched a major new release of Valence, its development framework for creating Web-based applications for IBM i. With version 6.2, CNX has added a number of new features that assist with improving the appearance and functionality of screens, new RPG toolkit procedures, and better SQL parsing for database interactions.
CNX’s Valence story stretches all the way back to 2001, when the Chicago, Illinois-based development and consulting shop started developing a third-party planning system that SSA (now Infor) BPCS customers could plug into their ERP systems. That early work on ATOMIC, as it was called, eventually turned …
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Sticking To The Backroads On This Journey Timothy Prickett Morgan
Things are getting progressively weird in the computer business, and with lots of travel over the past two weeks up and down the East coast for vacation and for visiting family, I have had a lot of time to think about things. It’s so weird that I really don’t want to play the radio. I just want to keep us safe on the highways and have my thoughts. Parse a few things, suss them out, see how they might fit together and in what particular configuration.
Because time is of the essence, I have been largely on the interstates, but …
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Coding in RPG (IBM i/AS400). Communicating with a REST SERVER with HTTPAPI Christian Larsen
5:27 What if I need a LOG of the communications made?
9:46 Testing the program in the green screen (after using HTTP_DEBUG and HTTP_XPROC) Read More
