Gabriel,

There have been questions posted in the past about db2 support. If you
would file an improvement/new feature JIRA and provide patches, I am sure
these enhancements would be regarded as welcome.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Gabriel Oberreuter
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, I was trying to connect OFBiz to the database which is included in IBMi
> operating system.
> This database is "DB2 for i", and as DERBY (the db OFBiz includes and uses
> by default) was bought by IBM and certified with its own db, I thought it
> shouldn't be so hard to use DB2 for i instead.
> I had to do the following:
>
> - copy the file framework\entity\fieldtype\fieldtypederby.xml into the new
> framework\entity\fieldtype\fieldtypedb2fori.xml file
> - replace sql-type="DOUBLE" with sql-type="FLOAT" (DB2 for i specification
> names FLOAT to DOUBLES)
> - create the db2fori entry in framework\entity\config\entityengine.xml
> (copying the entries of derby) and pointing to the new file, as with the
> other databases
> - include lib for db2fori connection (I used jt400-6.7.jar): copied into
> framework\entity\lib\jdbc
> - also, schemas have to be manually created (I don't know if there is a
> command to create schemas automatically if they don't exist as ofbiz does
> with derby db)
>         (create schema OFBIZ, create schema OFBIZOLAP, create schema
> OFBIZTENAN)
>
> doing this, and configuring entityengine.xml accordingly, I could use OFBiz
> with DB2 for i, the database that comes with IBMi systems.
>
> Just informing this as some other could find this useful. Also, is this
> worth to consider it as a modification to ofbiz to make it more generic?
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
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