Re: Microsoft's Entity Framework and the IBMi

As far as I know Data Direct providse an Entity Framework DB2 option. Additionally IBM DB2 Connect product also provides it as far as I know. All options cost $$$.

This is why we went with NHibernate instead of Entity Framework a few years back. Back then Entity Framework was a 1.0 product, might be better though today. I don't think there is a free Entity Framework option for IBM DB2 like there is with other database platforms.

NHibernate provides the same feature set as Entity Framework and it's been around a lot longer, only downside is it's LINQ implementation is not as good.

My 2 cents.

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From: Mike Wills [mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:24 PM
To: .net use with the System i
Subject: Re: [SystemiDotNet] Microsoft's Entity Framework and the IBMi

Now I really want 7.1 to check it out.

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On Jun 27, 2012 6:46 PM, "Craig Pelkie" <craig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On a PC with IBM i Access for Windows V7R1M0 installed, I see the
following
DLL:

c:\Program Files\IBM\Client Access\Shared\iDB2EntityFramework.dll

The DLL does not appear in a IBM System i Access for Windows V6R1M0
install,
so it seems to be newly added to the V7R1M0 version.

I have not seen any additional information about the DLL, but it is a
starting point.

Craig Pelkie

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[mailto:systemidotnet-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graap, Kenneth
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:51 PM
To: systemidotnet@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SystemiDotNet] Microsoft's Entity Framework and the IBMi

Hi Everyone

I am trying to figure something out and I thought one of you might be

able to help me…

Our company’s Web Support Team has been wanting to use Microsoft’s

Entity Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx to

access data on our IBMi (IBMi DB2 V7R1 on a Power6 box).

Apparently the IBM Navigator ODBC driver isn’t providing the

connectivity they require.

Has anyone implemented something like this successfully? If so, I’d

sure like to know how you did it.

I have read in places something about a product called DB Connect, but

it isn’t cheap and there wasn’t any specific information relating to

DB2 on IBMi …

Kenneth
肯尼思
Kenneth E. Graap
System Administrator
503.226.4211 x5537
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethgraap





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