Re: IBM DB2

In article <002001c00bc4$699bfd20$e340fea9@bellatlantic.net>, carlosi@bellatlantic.net ("Carlos Irigaray") wrote: Have you installed the IBM DB2 connect personal client? Your webserver needs to have this installed to access DB2 databases. See: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2connect/ Jeff > Thanks a lot! > > It works but only for a local database. To connect to a database on > another machine: > > Do you specify somehow the machine name (or IP) in the $DB_Database > variable? > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Warrington <jaydub@bossanova.com> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] IBM DB2 > > >> In article <003f01c0098f$bfcc8980$e340fea9@bellatlantic.net>, >> carlosi@bellatlantic.net ("Carlos Irigaray") wrote: >> >> Yes you need to use the odbc_* functions >> >> connect to database via odbc_pconnect or odbc_connect exec queries with >> odbc_exec() parse queries with odbc_num_rows results with odbc_result >> >> $DB_Database = "TEST"; >> $DB_User = "db2user"; >> $DB_Passwd = "db2pass"; >> >> $pConnID = @odbc_pconnect($DB_Database, $DB_User, $DB_Passwd) >> >> etc.... >> >> Jeff Warrington >> >> >> > ------=_NextPart_000_003C_01C0096E.387024E0 >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> > >> > Hi. I built PHP on a Linux server running Apache with the = >> > --with-ibm-db2 option. I am a little confused as how I will use the >> > API >> > = >> > to connect to a DB2 server running on another machine. BTW the DB2 = >> > server is running on an NT server. >> > >> > From what I could understand I need to use the odbc function set and >> > use >> > = them as if they were db2 functions. >> > >> > >> > Has anybody done this and understand my confusion? >> > >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> > >> > ------=_NextPart_000_003C_01C0096E.387024E0-- >> > >> >> -- >> PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: >> php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: >> php-list-admin@lists.php.net >> > >