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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:56 AM, 'DenesL' via web2py-users <
web2py@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Last summer uh? Not keeping up with i news lately...
>
> I looked it up as soon as I saw your post today, that is why I said it
> seems to need a modified adapter to map things thru ibm_db.
> It might be fairly easy and I would like to help but the lack of a newer i
> box to test with doesn't help.
>
> Denes
>
> On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 9:31:04 AM UTC-4, Jim S wrote:
>>
>> Yes, support became available for Python 2 and Python 3 last summer.
>> Came out in Technology Refreshes. They still have a long way to go getting
>> more packages supported, but base support is there. They also have a local
>> dbapi connector to connect to a DB2/400 database which is what I'm trying
>> to connect to with the DAL.
>>
>> I don't know where to begin modifying an adapter, looking for help.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 8:18:41 AM UTC-5, DenesL wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>> http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1474/calling-remote-
>>>>> program-on-db2-from-pythonweb2py
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <#m_-7554748344480484208_269cefbd-24e0-4f4b-98ec-bed31dff4d60@googlegroups.com_c78e0319-5078-4af6-9a39-37e920755dac@googlegroups.com_CAERBpoCttAv9kGK=rqf1z1TiNvGQS-h99VwVWD9JJZ3ZAVeMaw@mail.gmail.com_m_-838279669736982895_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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