Maybe Massimo will read this and give us some hints on how to make DAL use the ibm_dbi
Regards <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Sem vírus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> 2017-03-17 21:06 GMT+00:00 Jim S <ato.st...@gmail.com>: > 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 > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
