note 79776 deleted from ref.ibm-db2 by danbrown

Note Submitter: pbielen at gmail dot com ---- This is so frustrating. To be able to connect to DB/2 you have to install a bunch of software, why is there not just a odbc-driver or something ? To connect to iSeries it seems you also have to download DB/2 connect to be able to do that, well is it that hard to paste the links into this forum also, so you won't have to look for hours to find this piece of software ? Then if you install the DB/2 client as the document here says, then it installs al complete DB/2 database on the pc where you want to run PHP to connect to iSeries DB/2. Well i don't need all that software, i just want to connect to the iseries DB/2 database. Why must IBM always make it so hard to get something done. How about a clear HOW-TO that gives you each single step and each single command you have to use ? I'm now already trying for 3 months to get that crap running, but still no success. Then i saw a new zend release which requires i5 OS V5R4 but we only have V5R3 here. Then when you install xampp on a windows box which has php 5.2 and mysql 5 then there is indeed a php_ibm_db2 extension, but no matter if you comment it out, it simply does not load. So i guess we need to install that bunch of software to get something so easy (just a connection to a database) running. It's really frustrating anyway that only OpenSource Driven companies, Like PHP and MySQL are able to provide us with tools that just work out of the box (mysql extention anyone ?). I always thought it was only MS that was a big pain in da *** but seems IBM also knows how to frustrate users.