I would love to do some work on this if there was a mentor out there willing to help me get started.
-Jim On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:34 AM, António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> > <#m_-8595142087007992887_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 a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/web2py/qrlN5TSSBgs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
