Re: PHP update and directions

["Shalom Carmel" <shalom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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