The IBM Data
Server Provider for .NET
and the IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio 2005 have
been released. These tools, which support IBM UniData
and UniVerse
(U2) as well as DB2 and Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), can
be obtained at no cost from IBM Web site titled "IBM Data Server
Driver for ODBC, CLI and .NET".
The IBM Data Server Provider for .NET is a high performance,
managed ADO.NET data provider. Applications can use ADO.NET
Provider to connect to UniVerse
and UniData
, and can retrieve, manipulate, and update the data. ADO.NET
supports both connected and disconnected access. For improved
scalability, data processing applications running in a multi-tier
environment employ disconnected access.
Please note that the ODBC and CLI drivers do not support
U2.