i5/OS and Microsoft Office Integration Handbook

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications Now, you can use iSeries Access or Express Client to combine the presentation capabilities of Microsoft Office with the database capabilities of the i5/iSeries to provide your company with the best of both worlds. Discover how to use iSeries output with PC data-formatting tools, make visually appealing reports using iSeries data, use point-and-click query tools to create sophisticated information output, analyze and summarize the detailed and often cumbersome iSeries reports, tap into the power of Microsoft's powerful Universal Data Access using ADO.NET, ODBC, and OLE DB, and much more. This books gives you the essential knowledge you need to use iSeries Access or Express Access as a means to integrate iSeries or AS/400 data with Microsoft Office applications. The book covers installing and configuring iSeries Access or Express Client, using ODBC to seamlessly integrate iSeries with Office, and leveraging the iSer