1. IBM Office Connect 3.0 James Edmiston Consultant Quest Information Systems, Inc. 703-425-4726 james@questisinc.com Mike Terrell IT Specialist IBM Data Management Solutions 703-448-2133 terrell0@us.ibm.com

2. What is Office Connect Microsoft Excel Add In GUI with model viewer and query builder Binds spreadsheet columns to database columns or stored procedures Dynamic SQL filtering Update/insert capability

3. Deployment Options Personal Edition –User connects directly to database –Builds spreadsheets for personal use Web Edition –Design Time client develops spreadsheet for use by others –Runtime client uses pre-developed spreadsheet

4. Personal Edition ODBC Application Databases Personal Edition ODBC Personal Edition ODBC

5. Deploying Applications Users DCOMODBC Application Databases MTS InformixRDAS.DLL ODBC Definitions Middle Tier Developer Personal Edition MTS Enabled No ODBC Definitions Personal Edition ODBC Definitions File System Excel Workbooks

6. Web Edition Web Edition Servlet Web Client Web Edition Design Time HTTPJDBC/HTTP ODBC/HTTP ODBC JDBC Application Databases HTML DataSources Repository Servlet Engine

7. Deploying Web Edition Web Client HTTP JDBC Application Databases Repository HTTP Server Tomcat Tomcat Apache etc Servlet Engine Tomcat WebSphere Office Connect Servlet Middle Tier Web Pages HTML DataSource HTTP

8. System Requirements Client side –IBM Office Connect 3.0 –Windows (95/98, NT 4.0 SP4, 2000 SP1) –Excel 97 (Excel 2000 for Web edition) –Informix Client SDK –Web browser Server Side –Windows or Unix –Database server

9. Web Edition Java 2 SDK 1.3 Apache Jakarta Tomcat Java Servlet Engine IBM Office Connect Servlet installed into Tomcat Install appropriate JDBC drivers (DB2 or JDBC) ODBC datasource if using an Access repository.

10. Office Connect Components Project Manager –Connection Manager –Model Viewer –Query Builder Repository Manager Web Query

11. Using Office Connect Toolbars Menus Project Manager Refresh worksheet Refresh workbook Repository Manager Web Query Save to DB Update Range Refresh Worksheet Refresh Range Web Login and Find Web Logout Run Time Toolbar Design Time Toolbar

12. Connect to a database

13. Import the Data Model

14. Model Wizard Checkboxes allow you to select which tables to include in the model Save the model file so that it can be reused

15. Project Manager and Data Model

16. Drag a Table to the Worksheet

17. Populating a Range

18. A Populated Range

19. Online Resources Office Connect 3.0 Tech Brief http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/informix/tools/officeconnect/ Office Connect product announcement http://www.iiug.org/news/prod_alert_16oct01.html Office Connect Email Discussion List www.iiug.orgwww.iiug.org, Resources, Discussion Groups office-connect@iiug.org

20. Questions? James Edmiston Consultant Quest Information Systems, Inc. 703-425-4726 james@questisinc.com Mike Terrell IT Specialist IBM Data Management Solutions 703-448-2133 terrell0@us.ibm.com