# Rails and DB2 for z/OS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-db2-for-z-os/139299>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 2, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-db2-for-z-os/139299 "2008-06-02T18:50:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jorg\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@Jorg\_L](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jorg_L)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-db2-for-z-os/139299/1 "2008-06-02T18:50:24Z")

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I am new to RoR and I do like it a lot for dellivering data centric  
web applications. It is much better than what I’ve been used to. One  
area I am interested in is the behavior with DB2, including zOS. I  
have gotten the ibm\_db gem installed and everything basic works. I do  
wonder if it is possible to alter the database that the tables get  
created in through rails. The issue is that the term database on zOS  
is something very different (a logical construct really) and the  
default for tables in DSNDB04 which is OK but certainly not ideal.