Kim Haase wrote:
Kathey Marsden wrote:
Alan Burlison wrote:
Related question: If you want to connect to a Derby instance using
something other than Java (C, Python Perl etc), what's the
recommended mechanism? Google suggests the DB2 driver, but most of
the articles and howto's are several years old, and date back to the
Cloudscape days.
Hi Alan,
IBM no longer provides support for the DB2 driver with Derby and is
not testing it with new releases. It would be great to see an open
source initiative for an ODBC driver for Derby. Although this is
often requested, I don't think we have a Jira entry for it yet.
Perhaps you could open one.
There are a couple of topics on the DB2 driver in the Derby
Administration Guide. Should these be removed, do you think? If so, I
could file a JIRA issue for this. Possibly we should just add a note
about the lack of support?
Thanks,
Kim Haase
If the driver is no longer supported and isn't being tested against new
Derby releases, then it makes sense to me to remove references from the
Derby user manuals. Maybe the information could migrate to the wiki
along with a note stating that the DB2 driver is not supported or tested
anymore.
Regards,
-Rick
