IBM eserver i5 - New with V5 R3

5486LPAccess.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
722 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
򐂰 Migration
You can migrate to V5R2 iSeries Access for Windows from the following
products:
– Client Access Enhanced for Windows 3.1
– Client Access for Windows 95/NT (V3R2.0 only)
See Informational APAR II13196 at the following Web site for more information
about migration paths:
http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support
New with V5R3
PC5250 emulator is now at V5.7. The enhancements include:
򐂰 Additional accessibility to the Operator Information Area (OIA)
򐂰 Popup keypad
򐂰 Color mapping
򐂰 Visual indications of sounds
򐂰 Enhanced mouse marking
򐂰 Bidirectional (LamAlef)
򐂰 USB Japanese 106 keyboard
򐂰 Basic ASCII print PDF and PDT
Data Transfer includes new unicode enablement and a text file type, plus support
for:
򐂰 Larger decimal precision
򐂰 BINARY and VARBINARY SQL data types
򐂰 UTF-8 and UTF-16 in DB2 tables
򐂰 Standard date and time cells in Microsoft Excel
򐂰 Numeric-to-character conversion when transferring Microsoft Excel data
򐂰 Most recently used request list and last directory in Excel Add-in
New.NET data provider (names IBM.DATA.DB2.iSeries) that allows Windows
applications to use the Microsoft.NET framework to access DB2 Universal
Database (UDB) for iSeries databases.
The ODBC driver for iSeries includes support for:
򐂰 BINARY and VARBINARY data types
򐂰 UTF-8 and UTF-16 data
򐂰 Increased precision of decimal numbers and enhanced MTS support
Note: Windows 95 is no longer supported.