Introduction

Domino Enterprise Connection Services (DECS) lets Lotus Domino applications access data in non-Domino databases. The external data is then available to Lotus Notes client applications. By using DECS with an Easysoft ODBC driver, your Notes/Domino applications can access data in databases such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle, InterBase and Sybase ASE. For example, access SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Express databases from Notes/Domino applications on Linux by using DECS with our SQL Server ODBC driver.

Use DECS with our Oracle, InterBase, Sybase drivers to access those databases.

To access other databases for which an ODBC driver is available, for example MS Access, use the ODBC-ODBC Bridge (OOB).

For relational ODBC access to Domino databases from Linux and UNIX platforms, use the OOB with the Lotus NotesSQL ODBC driver.

Easysoft ODBC drivers have been tested with Notes/Domino 6 beta 3, the final Domino 6 release and Domino 7. We believe our ODBC drivers should also work with version 5 too. We tested on Linux.

Note that information about developing Notes/Domino applications is beyond the scope of this article. Technical resources for Notes and Domino developers are available from this web page:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus
Installing Easysoft ODBC Drivers

Download the Easysoft ODBC driver for your database. (Registration required.)

Note If you are using a 64-bit version of Domino, you need to use it with a 64-bit Easysoft ODBC driver. If