Hi Vikas, maybe a contribution as a separate zOS DB2 Persistence Manager would be an idea. I could certainly see something like that as a contrib. Similar to the Oracle9BundlePersistenceManager idea from Jukka.
regards, david On 4/18/07, Stefan Guggisberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi vikas, On 4/16/07, Vikas Bhatia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jackrabbit persistence on DB2 ZOS v 8 is different than it is for most > databases. We had to make certain changes to the jackrabbit core in > order to get it working. > > Changes involved 3 java and 2 ddl and 1 repository.xml file in the paths listed: > * jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/fs/db > DatabaseFileSystem.java > DB2FileSystem.java > db2-zos.ddl > > * jackrabbit-core/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/core/persistence/db > DatabasePersistenceManager.java > db2-zos.ddl > > * repository.xml > > We would like to contribute these changes back to the community since > they might help someone in the future. > > Ideally these changes should be reflected in the upcoming releases but > DB2 ZOS has limitation on 8 character tablespace and database names. > Thus we had to change the java files and hardcode a couple of values > in the repository.xml. The default workspace had to be changed to def. > Workspaces created using this code again have to take into account the > 8 character limit. These changes might not be compatible with all > databases. In that case we could just contribute this code into the > contrib dir or put it up on the wiki. > > Please advice. first of all i'd like to thank you for sharing this information with the list. since using jackrabbit with db2 on z/OS is probably not a very common setup putting this information on the wiki would IMO be the best solution. cheers stefan > > Vikas. >
