DB2 Driver for Mac

Rails
1

I’ve been developing Rails applications using windows and am slowly
transitioning to a Mac but face a slight problem; our back-end uses
the AS/400. My question is, what are others doing to connect to an AS/
400, is there an IBM DB2 Driver for Mac’s I’m unaware of? Any
feedback is appreciated.
Thanks

2

Linux is the only other platform that I am aware of that is supported by
IBM
regarding DB2. I have the same problem and develop for DB2 on Linux. One
solution I’ve used in the past is to run a linux VM on my mac. Good
luck.

3

The word on the street (at IDUG in May) is that IBM will release DB2
Express-C
for the Mac (for development only) around September (dates not
guaranteed).

In the meantime you’d need to use Windows or Linux (even inside VMWare
on Mac)
but not native Mac.

HTH

Phil

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 02:56:03 smitty26 wrote:

I’ve been developing Rails applications using windows and am slowly
transitioning to a Mac but face a slight problem; our back-end uses
the AS/400. My question is, what are others doing to connect to an AS/
400, is there an IBM DB2 Driver for Mac’s I’m unaware of? Any
feedback is appreciated.
Thanks

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Philip N.
ScotDB Limited
([email protected])