Hello @Jim
any news  on your

DAL and ibm_db_dbi withing an iseries?


regards

2017-04-30 15:22 GMT+01:00 'DenesL' via web2py-users <
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> Have you tried the rname parameter in the table definition?.
> Denes
>
> On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:20:40 AM UTC-4, Jim S wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I was able to get it to connect and the DAL created my tables, but
>> not it won't access them because it is looking for lower case table names
>> and evidently when the tables were created the names became upper case.
>> Since I'm working with this in a Litmis space I don't have full access to
>> do all the work needed.  I do have a 7.3 IBM i box that I'm just getting
>> setup with the new OPS PTFs and am planning on continuing my testing when
>> that becomes available. I was planning on reporting back once I had that
>> all working.
>>
>> Anyone know if there is a quick way to tell the DAL to ignore the case of
>> the table/field names when connecting?
>>
>> -Jim
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 6:48 AM, António Ramos wrote:
>>
>>> @Jim any news on this ?
>>>
>>>
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>>> 2017-04-21 16:36 GMT+01:00 Massimo Di Pierro:
>>>
>>>> We do have an adapter for db2:ibm_db_dbi did you try it? Anyway, in
>>>> general adapter are defined in
>>>>
>>>> web2py/gluon/packages/dal/pydal/adapters
>>>> You can make your own adapter. The first step is identify which
>>>> existing adapter to extend. You want to pick the one with the closest SQL
>>>> dialect. Then you create (in a new adapter file) a new class that extends
>>>> that adapter. db2:ibm_db_dbi for example is defined in db2.py as follows:
>>>>
>>>> @adapters.register_for('db2:ibm_db_dbi')
>>>>
>>>> class DB2IBM(DB2):
>>>>
>>>>     drivers = ('ibm_db_dbi',)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     def connector(self):
>>>>
>>>>         uriparts = self.ruri.split(";")
>>>>
>>>>         cnxn = {}
>>>>
>>>>         for var in uriparts:
>>>>
>>>>             v = var.split('=')
>>>>
>>>>             cnxn[v[0].lower()] = v[1]
>>>>
>>>>         return self.driver.connect(
>>>>
>>>>             cnxn['dsn'], cnxn['uid'], cnxn['pwd'], **self.driver_args)
>>>>
>>>> and can be called as:
>>>>
>>>> db = DAL('db2:ibm_db_dbi:dsn=....;uid=...;pwd=...')
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, 21 April 2017 09:50:03 UTC-5, Jim S wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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 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:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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