I would love to do some work on this if there was a mentor out there
willing to help me get started.

-Jim

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:34 AM, António Ramos <ramstei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe Massimo will read this and give us some hints on how to make  DAL
> use the ibm_dbi
>
> Regards
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> 2017-03-17 21:06 GMT+00:00 Jim S <ato.st...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> In a former (and somewhat current) life I was an AS/400 guy.  Our shop
>> still uses the platform though most of my time is spent on Python and
>> web2py now.
>>
>> Recently Python became available and officially supported on IBM i and
>> I'm trying to get web2py running there accessing the local DB2/400
>> database.  Using the local python on the system I can create a database
>> connection to the local database doing this:
>>
>> import ibm_db_dbi as db
>>
>> conn = db.connect(database='*LOCAL')
>>
>> I'm hoping to find an easy way to convert this into a connectstring for
>> the DAL so I can have my database created there.  The SQL-flavor it should
>> use would be the same as ODBC-flavored SQL.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a clue how to modify the DAL code to connect to my
>> db?  Any pointers to other articles or links would really be appreciated.
>> It would be exciting for me to get this working since I could then show RPG
>> developers how easy it would be to get an application on the web from the
>> AS/400 using python/web2py.
>>
>> -Jim
>>
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