WI400 – Outside IBM i + XMLSERVICE + CW
Following the successful first installations of WI400 version 7.0, supporting the new IBM-ZEND XMLSERVICE toolkit and using CW (Compatibility Wrapper), the WI400 team announces for mid February the availability of WI400 version 7.0 supporting XMLSERVICE , which can be installed outside the AS400 platform.
This new version will also support ODBC drivers for deployments which do not require special performances.
WI400 installation upon external platforms allows greater flexibility, that is the possibility of selecting hardware, operating system and PHP Stack selection, with a choice between fully OPEN solutions and supported/certified Stacks.
For accessing data using DB2 an IBM DB2 Connect license is required; in case of lighter installations, a simple ODBC driver is needed.
We remark that XMLSERVICE, new IBM-ZEND toolkit, is a free OPEN-SOURCE solution that the WI400 team helped testing and developing. The previous toolkit produced by Aura Equipment will not be present anymore on new ZendServer IBM installation, and will have to be bought separately.
End 2012 WI400 will stop supporting this technology.