Re: PHP update and directions

On 10/25/06, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

An AIX binary running in PASE can access native mode DB2? How does
that work? Are there APIs for that?

I don't know about the APIs, but the connection is native.
In Net.Data you would write

%DEFINE {
 DATABASE="*LOCAL"
 LOGIN=""
 PASSWORD=""
 i5schema = "MYLIB"
 i5table="$(i5schema).MYFILE"
%}

and in PHP the equivalent is

<?php
$i5schema = "MYLIB";
$i5table    = "MYFILE";
$i5db="", $i5uid = ""; $i5pwd="";
$i5options = array("i5_lib"=>$i5schema);
$i5conn = db2_connect($i5db, $i5uid, $i5pwd, $i5options);

I guess that this connection is not monitored by any exit point, but
then neither is Net.Data nor Java's native access.

> It can access other databases via
> ODBC
> by utilizing DRDA (wrkrdbdire).

sounds slooow.  I think that is the way you call RPG from PHP, via an
SQL procedure.

Not really slow. In fact, performance can be compared to a regular
ODBC connection. I will inquire about how the bridge to RPG was
written, but I doubt that any SQL was used. There are PASE APIs to
achieve this.

Any sense of what Zend thinks of the i5?  Did IBM pay Zend to port PHP
or are they actually investing in the platform?   Any chance Zend will
buy i5/OS from IBM??

Zend received incentives from IBM - I don't know how when or what, and
I didn't ask.

As far as buying i5/OS - i5 used to be a milking cow but now it is a dead dog.


Regards,
Shalom Carmel
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