Hi,
Great! I'll start posting patches for iSeries support.
Regarding the migrations, I expect most iSeries developers to work against
a legacy system, hence migrations is not that interesting yet.
Otherwise iSeries developers will be comfortable with handling database
changes without migrations.
Maybe someone would start doing migrations at some point in time? First
of all we need proper sorting, searching and support for common data
types.
I've discussed this topic with a guy from IBM AlphaWorks, and IBM also
considers supporting iSeries through the Activerecord-jdbc.... but we just
couldn't wait to start using RoR with iSeries, which is why we started off
now to see how far we can get - and everything seems promising so far.
- Henrik
>
> Hi,
>
> I've started with Activerecord-jdbc for AS400 / System i, using the
> remote JDBC driver from "AS400 Java Toolbox" (jdbc:as400:...).
>
> I started the project based upon jdbc:DB2, and my focus is to run Rails
> with ActiveScaffold. I now have a working column sorting with
> "LIMIT/Paging" support, and also support for live search.
> I'm inspired by the implementation done in DB2OnRails done by IBM.
> (http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/db2onrails)
>
> What's the procedure for committing this to the Activerecord-jdbc
project?
Can you provide it as a patch? We'd love to add more support.
> My next issues is handling of:
> - Adding automated tests to prove and enhance support
> - More types like Boolean, Float, Date etc.
>
> Inside scope:
> - Support for current i5/OS versions. V5R3M0 and later
>
> Out of my scope:
> - Migrations (since we're coding against a standard product which
> already controls the database scheme)
I assume that nobody interested in using your support will miss
migrations, yes? Because the procedures for updating the schema are
atypical and users of this system would already be comfortable with that?
- Charlie
Regards
Multi-Support A/S
Henrik Fjorback
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