A third party provider was telling us we needed DB2 Connect for this particular application. My question: Is there any significant difference between these two JDBC drivers? I guess the driver that comes with DB2 Connect is called a "Type 2" driver, but I'm not sure if that is significant or not.
The Type 2 driver vs. the iSeries type 4 JDBC driver should not matter. There are probably some minor differences between the JDBC driver like the library list support issue that you have already discovered. However, I'm not aware of any differences that would prevent a third-party application from using the Toolbox JDBC driver. I would ask the third-party provider to tell you why they cannot the Toolbox JDBC driver -- my guess is that they have not taken the time to test with the Toolbox JDBC driver. There were some rare cases in the past where DB2 Connect had to be used instead of the iSeries middleware, but those deficiencies were eliminated.
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This was first published in January 2003