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<h1 class="topictitle1">What's new for V5R4</h1>
<div><p>Find a summary of the new administration functions for this release.</p>
<p>With the installation of V5R4 iSeries™ Access for Windows<sup>®</sup>,
you can manage your environment through new functions that have been added
to the database providers and other product enhancements.</p>
<p>New features for the iSeries Access for Windows administrator include:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Data Transfer features</strong> <p>V5R4 Data Transfer now includes support
for MS Excel Xml Spreadsheet format, 128 byte column names, PC selection
of an independent auxiliary storage pool (IASP), and support for creating
and overwriting empty query result sets.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>PC5250 print and emulation</strong> <p>V5R4 iSeries Access for Windows PC5250
comes with integrated support for version 5.8 of Personal Communications 5250.
Key enhancements for version 5.8 include printer session association, configuration
settings in the session windows in a printer session, page and printer setup
APIs, additional Bidi enablement, and automation object support for .NET. </p>
</li>
<li><strong>iSeries Navigator</strong> <p>There
are several new iSeries Navigator
features. For a description of these features see information provided with iSeries Navigator.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>ODBC</strong> <p>In V5R4, ODBC and your iSeries host support 128-byte column
names and longer SQL statements (commands up to 2,097,152 bytes or 1,048,576
characters). ODBC also supports passing an IBM<sup>®</sup> Enterprise Workload Manager (eWLM) correlator
to the iSeries host.</p>
</li>
<li><strong>Database providers</strong> <p>Library List and System Naming are now supported
by the <strong>.NET provider</strong> and the <strong>OLE DB provider</strong>. In addition,
these providers also support the new V5R4 iSeries host server enhancements, which
include 128-byte column names, longer SQL statements, and passing the IBM Enterprise
Workload Manager (eWLM) correlator.</p>
<p>The .NET provider also supports
LOB data types and customizable String processing for other data types. It
also supports multiple active result sets for each connection, and IntelliSense.</p>
<ul><li>For technical details about the IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries provider, see the <cite>IBM DB2<sup>®</sup> UDB
for iSeries .NET
Provider Technical Reference</cite>. For details about the other providers,
see the <cite>OLE DB Technical Reference</cite>. You can access these documents
from topics in the <cite>Programmer's Toolkit</cite>, following this path: <p><span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Start</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Programs</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">IBM
iSeries Access for Windows</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Programmer's Toolkit</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol"> Programmer's Toolkit</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Common Interfaces</span></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Printer Drivers</strong><div class="p"> Beginning with V5R4, iSeries Access for Windows provides
a 64-bit AFP™ printer
driver for use on 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The new
driver is supported on the Intel<sup>®</sup> Itanium (Intel 64-bit) Processor Family of personal
computers. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Notes:</span> <ul><li>The driver is not supported on the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Hammer
family of processors.</li>
<li>The SCS Printer Driver is not supported on 64-bit Windows operating
systems.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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</li>
<li><strong>Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)</strong><ul><li>Beginning with V5R4, you can configure client PCs to, optionally, switch
in and out of FIPS-compliant (Federal Information Processing Standards) mode,
for most functions of iSeries Access for Windows where SSL is used.</li>
<li>Also, beginning with V5R4, Client Encryption (CE3) is no longer installed
as a separate product on the server in order to install 128-bit SSL Encryption
on your PC. 128-bit SSL Encryption is packaged with the iSeries Access
for Windows (XE1)
product, and is therefore available as an installable component of your usual
new, upgrade, selective, or tailored install options.</li>
<li>In addition, starting with V5R4, SSL is available for 64-bit applications
on personal computers powered by the Intel Itanium (Intel 64-bit) Processor Family. <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Notes:</span> <ul><li>SSL is not yet available for 64-bit applications run on the Advanced Micro
Devices (AMD) Hammer family of processors or on Intel processors with EM64T. </li>
<li>SSL is available to 32-bit applications that run on either platform.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="rzaiiwhatnew__RZAIIACCESSUSERGUIDE"><a name="rzaiiwhatnew__RZAIIACCESSUSERGUIDE"><!-- --></a><h4 class="sectiontitle">Other information</h4><p>After
installing iSeries Access
for Windows,
use this path from the iSeries Access for Windows folder to access the User's
Guide: <span class="menucascade"><span class="uicontrol">Start</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">Programs</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">IBM iSeries Access for Windows</span> &gt; <span class="uicontrol">User's Guide</span></span>.</p>
<p>The C/C++ Database APIs (Optimized SQL APIs) are no
longer being enhanced. At some point in the future, support for these may
be removed. It is recommended that you use one of the other technologies for
database access.</p>
<p>The Windows 98 (all editions), Windows ME,
and Windows
NT<sup>®</sup> operating systems are not supported with V5R4 iSeries Access for Windows.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">How to see what's new or changed</h4><div class="p">To help you see
where technical changes have been made, this information uses: <ul><li>The <img src="delta.gif" alt="Start of change" /> image to mark
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<li>The <img src="deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /> image to mark
where new or changed information ends.</li>
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<p>To find other information about what's new or changed this release,
see the <a href="../rzahg/rzahgmtu.htm">Memo
to Users</a>.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzaiioverview.htm" title="Use this topic to administer iSeries Access for Windows in your client/server environment.">iSeries Access for Windows: Administration</a></div>
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<div class="relinfo"><strong>Related information</strong><br />
<div><a href="../rzaik/rzaikdotnetprovider.htm">.NET programming</a></div>
<div><a href="../rzaik/rzaikoledbprovider.htm">OLE DB programming</a></div>
<div><a href="../rzaj2/rzaj2whatnew.htm">What's new for iSeries Navigator in V5R4</a></div>
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