Windows Application Package

The IBM® i Access Client Solutions - Windows Application Package provides middleware for using and developing client applications to a user who is running Windows operating systems.

Windows Application Package is an optional package for Windows that is part of the IBM i Access Client Solutions product.

Users and application programmers can use Windows Application Package to leverage business information, applications, and resources across an enterprise by extending the IBM i resources to the PC desktop.

Windows Application Package has the following features:

• It includes an extensive number of application programming interfaces (APIs), such as APIs for ODBC, Active X, ADO, OLE DB, and ADO.NET.
• It is a Windows client used over TCP/IP.
• Provides accessibility to Db2® for i files.
• It communicates with IBM i platforms over a secure connection that uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. In addition, it supports FIPS-compliance (Federal Information Processing Standards), by a client-side, SSL encryption switch.