In this, the third edition of the perennial best-seller, iSeries gurus Chris Peters and Brian Singleton have completely updated this essential resource to reflect all of the latest changes and enhancements of iSeries Access and Express Client and Microsoft Office. Now, you can use iSeries Access or Express Client to combine the presentation capabilities of all versions of Microsoft Office with the database capabilities of the i5/iSeries to provide your company with the best of both worlds. Tasks that used to be almost impossible are now an easy reality...if you know the integration secrets revealed in this book. Discover how to use your iSeries output with PC data-formatting tools, make visually appealing reports using iSeries data, use visual query tools to point and click 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. Singleton and Peters provide you with 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. i5/OS and Microsoft Office Integration Handbook, Third Edition covers installing and configuring iSeries Access or Express Client, using ODBC to seamlessly integrate iSeries with Microsoft Office, and leveraging the iSeries Access data transfer function. The book also explains how to bring data from the iSeries to your PC by using NetServer, TCP/IP's FTP file transfer function, and/or Universal Data Access with OLE DB and ADO.NET. Other chapters of the book explore the multitude of Microsoft Office functions by devoting a specific chapter to each Office application to show you how to use each function with the i5/iSeries. You'll learn how to use Excel, Word, Query, Access, and Outlook to generate spreadsheets, mailing labels, form letters, and envelopes; to produce querie
- ISBN10 1583477098
- ISBN13 9781583477090
- Publish Date 1 May 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint MC Press, LLC
- Format eBook
- Pages 450
- Language English