Thanks. Then I will file a Jira ticket (hopefully doing it right, never
done that before).


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:27 AM, adrian.crum [via OFBiz] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> For the most part, that is the normal configuration process. I am
> surprised we don't have a fieldtype.xml file for DB2. Please feel free
> to create a Jira ticket and include your DB2 fieldtype.xml file.
>
> Adrian Crum
> Sandglass Software
> www.sandglass-software.com
>
> On 4/23/2014 5:55 AM, Gabriel Oberreuter 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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