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Hello,
I'm curious about the above. Anyone know why other than to be a "me
too" environment?
It enables tons of open source PHP stuff to run on the i. (That stuff
runs now, but as it uses MySQL for a database, it doesn't use DB2 files
so it's hard to integrate with native software.)
Say you wanted to use SugarCRM -- a very popular open source CRM package
-- on the i. Right now you can run it on a MySQL database -- and that
works well.
But what happens when you want to write a custom RPG program that
interfaces with the CRM data? Not easy, because the database isn't a
native DB2 database.
Err... maybe in your case, RPG is a bad example. But... so say an SQL
query... A REXX SQL query instead of an RPG program... the fact is,
in order to use native i5/OS tools, it has to be in an DB2 database.
Using a DB2 storage engine enables that.
Another benefit (that, perhaps, only I care about) is the fact that
MySQL clients on other platforms will now have access to DB2 data. For
example, I have PHP scripts running on FreeBSD. I can't use IBM's DB2
driver from PHP, because IBM doesn't make DB2 for FreeBSD. But a MySQL
client is no problem... and then my PHP scripts on FreeBSD can access my
critical business data that resides on i.
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