Comments on: A major milestone for DB2 on Rails

By: Crónica de una vida - IBM DB2 para Mac y adaptadores de base de datos nuevos para Rails

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:13:37 +0000

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By: Pete Helgren

Pete Helgren — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:19:15 +0000

Any idea when a “native” DB2 for i5/OS release is coming? As much as I appreciate the “remote” connection option, that still requires that I have a Windows, Linux or Unix flavor of OS to run in. I’d love to see something that will run in PASE (at least).

My Rails work has moved to using JRuby and Rails primarily because of this limitation. JRuby and Rails, using JDBC works with some tweaks but using an IBM supported gem from within PASE would be better.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:02 +0000

Thanks Brandon, it’s hard to tell when DB2 on Mac will be ready since there is no official release date yet. If I had to make an educated guess, not something I’d like to be quoted for, I’d say that we’ll probably have a release by Christmas. Or at least I hope so, as that would be a nice gift.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:42:03 +0000

Thanks Antonio for the response. It’s good to know IBM is working on DB2 for Mac. I’d love to get ahold of a beta… and if you have any wild guesses (which we won’t hold IBM to!) about when it might be available, I’m all ears.

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By: David Andrew Thompson

David Andrew Thompson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:06:56 +0000

What about the AS400? I was working on a project for a company using the AS400 for their retail backend and did not have any success using ibm_db in its previous versions. –thanks by the way…great work!!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:45:49 +0000

Praveen: “Yes, the ibm_db gem supports Remote connections to IBM DB2 Universal Database on i5/OS versions V5R3 and V5R4…”

You rock Praveen! Now if we can only get Microsoft to wake up and officially support SQL Server.

Paul

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:36:27 +0000

You are very welcome, Leo. I think a post about common pitfalls is in order. I’ll write one soon.

By: Leonardo Borges

Leonardo Borges — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:48 +0000

Just to share how we solved it, I was just chatting with Antonio and it turned out that I had to install it as root (sudo -s) to make it work.

Tks for your usual support Antonio.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:32:19 +0000

Hi Paul,

Yes, the ibm_db gem supports Remote connections to IBM DB2 Universal Database on i5/OS versions V5R3 and V5R4 and also remote connections to IBM DB2 Universal Database on z/OS version 8 and 9.

For every release we verify our gem against DB2 on LUW along with DB2 on iseries and zOS and also Informix Dynamic Server.

Thanks

Praveen