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If your company is doing classic .NET programming alongside IBM i development, then it is important to be conversant about providing Db2 for i data to Microsoft environments using the Db2 for i .NET Provider. The Db2 for i .NET Provider enables real time data access from a compiled Microsoft or 3rd party OO language, in a manner very similar to SQL Server.
This session seeks to enable you to demonstrate (on your PC) that it is no big deal to get current Db2 for i data without interim data extract steps. The Db2 for i .NET Provider is available in the ACS Windows Application Package for no additional charge for companies who have ACS license(s).
There are many ways and some good reasons to consume and even update Db2 for i data from classic .NET (.NET Framework 2.0 through 4.8), for the betterment of your company, especially in cases where the applications and data continue to reside primarily on IBM i. For our company, we chose the web forms style project types to solve our needs for a website strategy, but the Db2 for i .NET Provider can be used in quite a few other project types and applications or to feed external data stores. This provider can’t be used in the new/latest Microsoft framework known simply as .NET (originally named .NET Core), however there might be more parallels with traditional IBM i development with the older 4.8 Framework and many, if not most, Azure cloud offerings are compatible with classic .NET.
In this 2-hour session, we will also hit upon several admin functions including installation of the Visual Studio Community Edition 2022 as the IDE (some via video on the Tegratecs website). Same thing for installing the provider on Windows Server (again to show how it is no big deal…), in order to help reduce hurdles hindering implementation at a production level.
