Hi Jim
Python officially supported on i, finally!!
I wish this had happened a while back.
It seems that this would require a modified adapter in web2py,
sadly I have no access to a current 7.x box to test.
Denes
On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 11:11:34 AM UTC-4, Jim S wrote:
>
> In this example he is connecting using a DB2 connector. However, I'm
> hoping to use the ibm_db_dbi connector and don't know how to specify it on
> the dal connection. He is using:
>
> db = DAL('db2://DSN=MYDSN;UID=xxxxx;PWD=xxxxx', migrate_enabled=False)
>
>
> I'm not sure what to put in place of the db2://DSN...
>
> Anyone?
>
> -Jim
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:38 PM, António Ramos wrote:
>
>> maybe
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>> http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1474/calling-remote-program-on-db2-from-pythonweb2py
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>> 2017-03-17 21:06 GMT+00:00 Jim S :
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In a former (and somewhat current) life I was an AS/400 guy. Our shop
>>> still uses the platform though most of my time is spent on Python and
>>> web2py now.
>>>
>>> Recently Python became available and officially supported on IBM i and
>>> I'm trying to get web2py running there accessing the local DB2/400
>>> database. Using the local python on the system I can create a database
>>> connection to the local database doing this:
>>>
>>> import ibm_db_dbi as db
>>>
>>> conn = db.connect(database='*LOCAL')
>>>
>>> I'm hoping to find an easy way to convert this into a connectstring for
>>> the DAL so I can have my database created there. The SQL-flavor it should
>>> use would be the same as ODBC-flavored SQL.
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me a clue how to modify the DAL code to connect to my
>>> db? Any pointers to other articles or links would really be appreciated.
>>> It would be exciting for me to get this working since I could then show RPG
>>> developers how easy it would be to get an application on the web from the
>>> AS/400 using python/web2py.
>>>
>>> -Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
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