iSeries Access for Windows: Database programming

iSeries™ Access for Windows^® provides multiple programming interfaces for accessing database files on the iSeries server.

Some of the common interfaces allow you to write a single application to access both the iSeries database and non-iSeries databases. In addition, a proprietary C API interface is supported to expose the unique strengths of DB2^® for iSeries. You can also use both Structured Query Language (SQL) to access DB2 Universal Database™ (UDB) for iSeries database files and stored procedures and use record-level access interfaces for access to single records within a file.

The following are the iSeries Access for Windows interfaces that are supported:

IBM^® Toolbox for Java™ JDBC Driver Allows Java programs to access iSeries database files using standard JDBC interfaces.

• iSeries Access for Windows .NET provider
  iSeries Access for Windows .NET provider allows .NET managed programs to access the iSeries database files using SQL.
• iSeries Access for Windows OLE DB provider
  Supports record-level access and SQL access to iSeries database files. Use the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and the OLE DB interfaces to take advantage of this support.
• iSeries Access for Windows ODBC
  A common database interface that uses SQL as its database access language. iSeries Access for Windows provides an ODBC driver to support this interface.
• iSeries Access for Windows database APIs
  The iSeries Access for Windows proprietary C/C++ Database APIs provide support for iSeries database and catalog functions, in addition to SQL access to iSeries database files. Choose this link for important information regarding these APIs.