Re: JDBC and Library-List

I can probably help explain this (I wrote the code).

Before v5r1, we did no library list processing whatsoever.  Our default
library support is accomplished by calling the CLI specifying the default
library.  The plural property name libraries was used to match the
relatively similar functionality from the Toolbox JDBC driver which came
out first.

In v5r1, I added support for a more full featured libraries property.  You
can now specify a list of libraries seperated by colons, spaces or commas.
As long as you are running in system naming mode, this list of libraries
will get added to your library list.  I don't monkey with the library list
of a job with SQL naming because, in general, SQL naming mode does not look
at the library list.

Don't forget that adding a library to the library list of a job yourself is
a reasonably easy task.  Here is a rough example of how you could do this
yourself:

Statement s = connection.createStatement();

String libName = "MYLIB";

// 14 is the length of the command without the library name.
// Add the library name length.
String strLength = Integer.toString(libName.length() + 14);
// Create the 10 character string length.
strLength = "0000000000" + strLength;
strLength = strLength.substring(strLength.length() - 10);

// Create the command.
String sqlString = "CALL QSYS/QCMDEXC('ADDLIBLE LIB(" + libName + ")', " +
strLength + ".00000)";

try {
    s.executeUpdate(sqlString);
} catch (Exception e) {
    System.out.println("Warning:  Adding library " + libName + " to the
server job library list failed.");
}


Regards,

Richard D. Dettinger
AS/400 Java Data Access Team

"Biologists have a special word for stability -- dead"

                Larry Wall
                Open Source Developers Journal
                Issue 1, Jan  2000


sepp.muegeli@dvbern.ch@midrange.com on 07/06/2001 10:55:57 AM

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Subject:  JDBC and Library-List



Hi all

I have a question about using the library list with jdbc and toolbox/native
jdbc driver.

I connect to the AS/400 with the properties:

  naming=system
  libraries=EVKTST

When I run my jdbc application on my PC and connect to the AS/400 with the
toolbox-driver, a job named QZDASOINIT is created to handle the requests.
When I display the library list of this job, I see that the library EVKTST
has been added to the library list. Thats fine.

When I run the application on the AS/400 using the native driver, a job
named QSQSRVR is created to handle the requests. This job does not have the
library EVKTST in its library list. It will still find the files in the
library, because it uses this library as the default library.

I need to have the library in the library list of the job, because I'm
calling a stored procedure and this stored procedure will not find the
files if the library is not in the library list. With the toolbox driver
the stored procedure is running fine, but with the native driver the stored
procedure can't  find the files.

In <http://www.as400.ibm.com/developer/jdbc/Faqs/JDBCFAQ.html#B8> I found
this text:
______________________________________________________________________
Property: naming
Values: "sql", "system"
Meaning:
     This property allows you to use either the traditional
      AS/400 naming syntax or the standard sql naming syntax. "system"
naming
      means that you should use a "/" character to separate collection and
table
      values, and "sql" naming means that you should use a "." character to
      separate the values.

     The setting of this value has ramifications for what the default
      library is also. See the "libraries" property for further information
on
      this.

The default is to use "sql" naming.
______________________________________________________________________

 Property: libraries
Values: anything
Meaning:
      This property is a little deceptive. It's name implies that
      it is plural, but the native JDBC driver only allows one library to
be
      specified. That one library, if provided will be set as the default
      library. This default library will be used as the intended library
for all
      references in SQL statements that are not qualified.

      The "naming" property has an effect on how this property will work if
      it is not explicitly set. In the default case, where "naming" is set
to
      "sql", JDBC works like ODBC. The default library is the same name is
the
      user profile. If the case where "naming" is set "system", the default
library will be the top library in the users library list. There are
      restrictions on how this work. See the entry on using a library list
found elswhere on this site.
______________________________________________________________________



Does anybody have an idea why I can not set the library list using the
native driver?

Sepp Mügeli
DV Bern AG
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