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Is it impossible to use a DB2 JDBC driver if you have DB2 installed on the NT PC on which you're running VAJ? One of my customers is thinking of giving this a whirl. I have encouraged him to use the Toolbox instead. He is using the native DB2 driver on AS/400 for the live app, so there's potentially incompatibility between the development (NT) & test/live (AS/400) JDBC drivers. I have pointed out that there'll probably be incompatibility between NT & AS/400 versions of the DB2 driver anyway, & that testing the particular aspects of JDBC used (basically, stored procedures with various combinations of in, out, inout parameters and/or result sets) against both drivers with a special test harness is probably the answer. (I have encountered large numbers of incompatibilities in the past between OS/400 releases and PTF levels, before you even worry about whether it's DB2 or Toolbox.) Perhaps other people who are in this situation of having to use different JDBC drivers for dev & live could comment on what they've encountered, as well? Incidentally I originally advised him to use of the DB2 driver in the live environment, fundamentally because it's running over SNA for security and the Toolbox doesn't support SNA, but also because our experience indicates much better performance than with the Toolbox, even when the latter is optimised to level 40. You also, although it may seem a trivial point, don't have to mess about with the classpath. Mandy cujo@us.ibm.com on 12/02/2001 14:53:36 Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com cc: (bcc: Mandy Shaw/Pacific/UK) Subject: Re: DB2 JDBC native driver
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You wrote: "Basically I want to develop and debug my code inside IDE
(VisualAge) by using DB2 native JDBC driver. "
You can't (to the best of my knowledge). Perhaps there is remote debug
support to some degree that you really can do this, but I am not wise
enough in the VAJ world to know it. If someone knows how to make this
work, please assist.
Now, unless someone says that VAJ can do this, here is why. The native
JDBC driver in its primary static initializer (you can't even create an
object before this happens), starts talking directly to the CLI on which
its built. There is no network, the APIs talk directly to each other. You
can get from one AS/400 to another system by a lower level network layer
(DRDA). Today, you just can't escape the fact that the "client" system
*must* be an AS/400. Even if you found a way to piece the parts together
so it would work on a different CLI/ODBC implementation, you would run into
all kinds of problems because ODBC/CLI is not nearly as portable as JDBC
drivers are.
What you probably want to do, in light of this is build your application
around the Toolbox JDBC driver. Then simply plug the Native JDBC driver in
when you move your application. This solution is perhaps not the best, and
it might require a bit more isolated testing after primary development is
done, but the approach works pretty seamlessly for most people. If there
are differences in the way the JDBC API works between the two drivers, they
should be posted to us here and we will investigate them. That doesn't
mean we can work all of them out, but they should appear pretty identical
to application code.
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
"Xu, Weining" <Weining.Xu@AIG.com>@midrange.com on 02/12/2001 08:14:40 AM
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You wrote:
2) To the best of my knowledge, the native JDBC jar file is not in
VisualAge anywhere. You can always take the jar file noted above
and put
it in VisualAge but for most purposes, this isn't really needed
because you
would already be coding to the JDBC API interface.
I imported db2_classes.jar into a project called DB2 inside VisualAge
environment. I have "import com.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.*;" for my class. I
checked the classpath to DB2 project. But when I run the program, it seems
still cannot load "com.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver".
What could be wrong?
Basically I want to develop and debug my code inside IDE (VisualAge) by
using DB2 native JDBC driver. Then deploy them on AS/400, so the production
programs will be run on AS/400 machine. I do not have problem on AS/400
yet.
Thanks,
Wayne
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From: Richard Dettinger [mailto:cujo@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:40 AM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Updating result set in Java
This should help:
1) The native JDBC driver is not in the classpath be default with JDK 1.2
and beyond. The following CL command will put the Native JDBC driver in
your extensions classpath and then you won't have to worry about it again:
ADDLNK OBJ('/QIBM/ProdData/Java400/ext/db2_classes.jar') NEWLNK
('/QIBM/UserData/Java400/ext/db2_classes.jar')
Of course, you can just add it to your classpath if you want. That will
fix the no suitable driver messages.
2) To the best of my knowledge, the native JDBC jar file is not in
VisualAge anywhere. You can always take the jar file noted above and put
it in VisualAge but for most purposes, this isn't really needed because you
would already be coding to the JDBC API interface.
3) You can't run the native JDBC driver from a system that is not a 400
(iSeries). This is because it is tied directly into the database and the
JVM. You can connect from one 400 to another 400 or from one 400 to a
different backend (such as a 390) over DRDA, but you can't have your
'client' not be an AS/400 or iSeries.
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
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Thanks, Richard.
As you suggested, I am running the program on AS/400 by using DB2 native
JDBC driver. Now I got other problems on AS/400. I have multiple JDKs on
the AS400. In order to use the JDBC 2.0 API, I have to use JDK 1.2. But I
got "no suitable driver" message. I have no problem to load the driver if
I run the program using JDK1.1.8, of course in this case all JDBC2.0 API
methods will not be recognized. Does AS400 Developer Kit for Java only
support JDK1.1.8? Do I miss something here?
By the way, I tried to run the db2 JDBC native driver inside VisualAge for
JAVA 3.5. But the program can not find the driver. Do you know where is
the package "com.ibm.db2.jdbc.app" inside the IDE. I have no problem to
use the native driver on AS400 (for JDK1.1.8). What I understood is that
on AS400 I am using AS/400 Developer Kit for Java, how about inside
VisualAge?
I do have write authority to the table. In fact, I can use SQL statement
to update the ID field of the TEST table. The code looks like this:
String myUpdate = "update TEST set ID = RRN(TEST)+30";
stmt = con.createStatement();
stmt.executeUpdate(myUpdate);
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Dettinger [mailto:cujo@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:11 AM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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You don't have write authority to the table??? No, I don't have another
guess.
Export your program to the 400 and use the Native JDBC driver to see if the
problem is the same.
If the problem is the same, the issue is likely to be something about the
database (either setup
or a bug). If it works that way, its likely to be a Toolbox JDBC driver
issue which should be investigated.
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
"Xu, Weining" <Weining.Xu@AIG.com>@midrange.com on 02/02/2001 03:52:00 PM
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rs.next() did return true. The code was simplified. I do use while
(rs.next()) in my real code.
any other thought??
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Dettinger [mailto:cujo@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 4:23 PM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Updating result set in Java
Are you sure the call to rs.next() returned true? If you don't test the
boolean return value, the resultset could have been empty. That's my
first, best guess.
Of course, you can write code however you want, but I always make it a
practice to use while(rs.next()) if I am going to process all the rows and
if (rs.next()) if I want to process only one. This ensures that there is
always data before I go off and try to do something to the ResultSet.
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
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I have problem to update the result set programmatically. I use VisualAge
for Java 3.5 Enterprise Edition. My database is DB2 in AS/400. I am using
JDBC 2.0 API features to update the field in the result set. I got error
message:
SQLException: Cursor state not valid.
SQLState: 24000
Here is my sample code:
import java.sql.*;
import com.ibm.as400.access.*;
class Test {
public static void main(java.lang.String[] args) {
Connection con = null;
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
// Load Java JDBC driver.
try {
Class.forName("com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver");
} catch(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException: "+e.getMessage
());
}
try {
con = DriverManager.getConnection
("jdbc:as400://wilm620/agtcomp", "myID", "mypassword");
} catch (SQLException e){
System.err.println("Connection Error Exception: "
+e.getMessage());
}
try{
stmt = con.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE,
ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
rs = stmt.executeQuery("select ID from AGTCOMP.TEST");
//move the cursor to the first row and update the ID field
(Integer) to 30.
rs.next();
rs.updateInt(1,30);
stmt.close();
con.close();
}catch (SQLException e){
System.err.println("SQLException: "+e.getMessage());
System.err.println("SQLState: "+e.getSQLState());
}
System.exit(0);
}
}
I have tried to scroll the result set up and down, there is no problem to
do that. But I just cannot update it. Of course I can not do rs.updateRow()
to update the row in the database either.
Any helps will be highly appreciated.
Weining (Wayne) Xu
Phone: +302.594.2846
Email: weining.xu@aig.com
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