RE: [PHP-DB] Accessing IBM DB2-400 without Client Connect

Marc, You do not explicitly need DB2 Connect for an ODBC connection - ODBC vendors provide a wide variety of driver architecture, some which 'piggback' on existing native client layers, and some that bypass them entirely. Openlink's Multi-Tier is one example of an architecture that bypasses the native layer, replacing instead of adding to the native layer. Unfortunatley we don't support AS-400, but I imagine that you can find a vendor that provides such drivers. The point I'm trying to make is, ODBC is an alternative to native connectivity which, depending on the ODBC vendor can be faster, slower, more or less functional than the native dbms vendors' connection layers - dbms vendors core focus is on the dbms, not necessarily protocols to aid in communication. Hope this helps. Best regards, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------- Andrew Hill Director Technology Evangelism OpenLink Software http://www.openlinksw.com XML & E-Business Infrastructure Technology Provider > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Grober [mailto:mgrober@ahfc.state.ak.us] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:18 PM > To: php-db@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DB] Accessing IBM DB2-400 without Client Connect > > > Hello, > > I am a newbie at php with experience at perl trying to select > between using > perl and DBI DB2:DBD and php to provide access to a back end DB2 > database on > an AS/400 from a web server. According to IBM (as I understand them), no > matter what someone does on the front end, any script must access > an IBM DB2 > client such as Connect in order to talk to the DB2 engine, even > using ODBC. > WHile this may have some benefits, it also seems to add a good deal of > overhead..... The various FAQs on php suggest that php can speak directly > to DB2 via the ODBC modules (though without actually using ODBC). > Are there > examples of this somewhere that can be accessed or someone on the > list with > some success in accomplishing this.............. > > Thanks >