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Microsoft Access as Frontend for DB2

Hello,

I am searching documentation (Redbooks, White Papers, ...) about using DB2
as a backend for Microsoft Access.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks a lot

Dirk
Nov 12 '05 #1
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Make sure you register your DB2 database as a system DSN (ODBC) on the
machine that will be running Access. Then from Access choose get
external data, and choose either import table or link to table.

That works for me, so it should work for you.

CHristos Kalantzis


Dirk Deimeke wrote:
Hello,

I am searching documentation (Redbooks, White Papers, ...) about using DB2
as a backend for Microsoft Access.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks a lot

Dirk

Nov 12 '05 #2
Christos Kalantzis:
Make sure you register your DB2 database as a system DSN (ODBC) on the
machine that will be running Access. Then from Access choose get
external data, and choose either import table or link to table.
Which driver did you install on the Windows workstations?
That works for me, so it should work for you.


Thanks a lot.

Dirk
Nov 12 '05 #3
For ODBC, you have to install the db2 client (Someone please correct me
if you can get away with at least the run-time client).

Once installed, you have to catalog the target database. The client
configuration assistant is great if you don't have enough experience in
catalogging databases...as well it will create the ODBC DSN for you.

Hope this helps

Christos Kalantzis


Dirk Deimeke wrote:
Christos Kalantzis:

Make sure you register your DB2 database as a system DSN (ODBC) on the
machine that will be running Access. Then from Access choose get
external data, and choose either import table or link to table.

Which driver did you install on the Windows workstations?

That works for me, so it should work for you.

Thanks a lot.

Dirk

Nov 12 '05 #4
Christos Kalantzis:
For ODBC, you have to install the db2 client (Someone please correct me
if you can get away with at least the run-time client).
I see there is a "DB2 Run-Time Client Lite" which contains ODBC-Drivers.
Once installed, you have to catalog the target database. The client
configuration assistant is great if you don't have enough experience in
catalogging databases...as well it will create the ODBC DSN for you.


Ok, thank you.

Cataloging will be no problem, but DSNs are new to me.

Thanks for your support.

Dirk

Nov 12 '05 #5

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