Danny,
Perhaps you are correct. However, I thought the DB2 driver from IBM came
with another set of products separate from the base dB2 product and was
somewhat more expensive than other drivers. If this isn't correct, someone
please let me know so I can go hit up our dB2 group for the driver.
----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Rubis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: JDBC-DB2 (NT)
> Hey!
>
> Jay, am I missing something here. Why not
> use the JDBC driver that comes with DB2. :>).
>
> I think the post-er is asking how to start the DB2 driver ("I want to
> know how to initialize the JDBC driver.").
>
> db2jstart xxxxx, where xxxxx is the port number assigned to the listener.
>
> BTW, this is all covered in DB2's docs, Nabil.
>
> Sans adieu,
> Danny Rubis
>
>
> Jay Macarty wrote:
>
> > Nabil,
> > There are a couple of ways to handle your situation. Probably the best
way
> > is to use a third-party jdbc dB2 driver, such as the one from HiT
software,
> > http://www.hit.com
> > to connect to DB2. These drivers are NOT free but do work quite well.
> >
> > Another solution, not the recommended one, is to setup an odbc
connection to
> > DB2 and then use the jdbc/odbc bridge. Again, this is generally not the
> > suggested method for anything but prototyping and some testing.
> >
> > One other possible solution would be to use a dB2 com object with a
package
> > like JIntregra to communicate between your code and the com object.
> >
> > I have successfully tried the first two methods and prefer the HiT
Software
> > DB2 driver.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nabil Abbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:30 AM
> > Subject: JDBC-DB2 (NT)
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am trying to write a servlet that connects to a DB2 server using
JDBC,
> > >
> > > could you please help me. I want to know how to initialize the JDBC
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Nabil
> > >
> > >
> >
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