Ibmda400 provider not registered on local machine

I think I have the correct OLEDB conecction string.

Dim dbconn As OleDbConnection
Dim dbCMD As oleDbCommand
Dim dtr As OleDbDataReader

dbconn = New OleDbConnection("Provider=IBMDA400.;Data Source=iSeriesServer_IP;User Id=User123;Password=Pass123;")

dbconn.Open()
dbCMD = New OleDbCommand("select * from aplus2flm.cusms ", dbconn)
dtr = dbCMD.executereader()

dtr.Read()

Me.GridView1.DataSource = dtr
Me.GridView1.DataBind()

dtr.close()
dbconn.close()

The thing is that when I
run the page from my development environment which is VS2010, everything
runs OK and I am able to access the iSeries(ibm) server data. But when I
publish the web project to discountasp.net hosting server I get the "The 'IBMDA400'
provider is not registered on the local machine" error message.

 

Answer

They discountasp.net just told me that I am getting this error message because they dont have the IBMDA400 installed on their servers.

 

...Ditto, that "IBM" makes me question a possible JAVA binary.

 

It appears to be for connecting to DB2 data on an IBM AS 400 system. This is the first time I've seen anyone trying to use that on a shared hosting account as well...