DBI on IBM AS/400 DB2

Adam Trickett adam at iredale.net
Wed Jan 16 20:21:14 GMT 2008


On Wednesday 16 Jan 2008, Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:38:25AM +0000, A J Trickett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On paper it is theoretically possible to install Perl on an IBM System i
> > box (aka AS400) running i5/OS (aka OS400) using some AIX shim. Apparently
> > it's also possible to connect to IBM's DB2 for i5/OS using the DB2
> > driver for the DBI.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class/lib/DBIx/Class/Storage/DBI/ODBC/DB2_
>400_SQL.pm
>
> Dunno if the stuff in here helps. Author might be able to shed some light
> though as you might guess from the class name he uses ODBC rather than the
> DB2 driver.

Thanks I'll forward to my colleague. I don't think he cares what Buffy would 
do...

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Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

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doctors nor lawyers.
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