After install the snapshot version I had success in doing a browse in
DB2 tables. There was new errors that I report below in the way
people can try to fix them:
1. Any update in table(via INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE) generates a
empty Message Dialog. I'm talking about an application developed with
DBNavigator and DBGrid;
2. People that uses DB2 in mainframe applications has the habit of
use TIMESTAMP fields as keys to make relation between tables. The
format of TIMESTAMP that is returned isn't useful since it eliminates
the 6 digit fractions of second. When you download the data from
mainframe to DB2 tables in the low platform it's necessary to keep
mainframe format compatibility because there are COBOL environments
that emulate mainframe behavior. The idea of these cobol environments
is test in the low platform and upload the sources, compile, catalog
and run applications on mainframe without new tests. More over it
must be thousands of other applications that would benefit of DB2
TIMESTAMP format. BTW, the format of TIMESTAMP in DB2 is YYYY-MM-DD
HH.MM.SS.UUUUUU. IMHO, any other format seems to be not correct for
DB2 approach.
My use of Lazarus with DB2 via ODBC will be restricted to browse
functions without updates.
I hope I have give contributions to DB2 interface evolution.
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