laravel-db2 is a simple DB2 service provider for Laravel. It provides DB2 Connection by extending the Illuminate Database component of the laravel framework.
Add laravel-db2 to your composer.json file:
"require": {
"cooperl/laravel-db2": "~2.0"
}
Use composer to install this package.
$ composer update
Add the laravel-db2 Service Provider to your config in app/config/app.php:
'providers' => [
'Cooperl\Database\DB2\DB2ServiceProvider'
],There are two ways to configure laravel-db2. You can choose the most convenient way for you. You can put your DB2 credentials into app/config/database.php (option 1) file or use package config file which you can be generated through command line by artisan (option 2).
Simply add this code at the end of your app/config/database.php file:
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| DB2 Databases
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
'ibmi' => [
'driver' => 'odbc' / 'ibm',
// General settings
'host' => 'server',
'username' => '',
'password' => '',
//Server settings
'database' => 'WRKRDBDIRE entry',
'prefix' => '',
'schema' => 'default schema',
'signon' => 3,
'ssl' => 0,
'commitMode' => 2,
'connectionType' => 0,
'defaultLibraries' => '',
'naming' => 0,
'unicodeSql' => 0,
// Format settings
'dateFormat' => 5,
'dateSeperator' => 0,
'decimal' => 0,
'timeFormat' => 0,
'timeSeparator' => 0,
// Performances settings
'blockFetch' => 1,
'blockSizeKB' => 32,
'allowDataCompression' => 1,
'concurrency' => 0,
'lazyClose' => 0,
'maxFieldLength' => 15360,
'prefetch' => 0,
'queryTimeout' => 1,
// Modules settings
'defaultPkgLibrary' => 'QGPL',
'defaultPackage' => 'A/DEFAULT(IBM),2,0,1,0',
'extendedDynamic' => 1,
// Diagnostic settings
'QAQQINILibrary' => '',
'sqDiagCode' => '',
// Sort settings
'languageId' => 'ENU',
'sortTable' => '',
'sortSequence' => 0,
'sortWeight' => 0,
'jobSort' => 0,
// Conversion settings
'allowUnsupportedChar' => 0,
'ccsid' => 1208,
'graphic' => 0,
'forceTranslation' => 0,
// Other settings
'allowProcCalls' => 0,
'DB2SqlStates' => 0,
'debug' => 0,
'trueAutoCommit' => 0,
'catalogOptions' => 3,
'libraryView' => 0,
'ODBCRemarks' => 0,
'searchPattern' => 1,
'translationDLL' => '',
'translationOption' => 0,
'maxTraceSize' => 0,
'multipleTraceFiles' => 1,
'trace' => 0,
'traceFilename' => '',
'extendedColInfo' => 0,
'options' => [
PDO::ATTR_CASE => PDO::CASE_LOWER,
PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false,
PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => false
]
],driver setting is either 'odbc' for ODBC connection or 'ibm' for pdo_ibm connection Then if driver is 'odbc', database must be set to ODBC connection name. if driver is 'ibm', database must be set to IBMi database name (WRKRDBDIRE).
Run on the command line from the root of your project:
$ php artisan config:publish cooperl/laravel-db2
Set your laravel-db2 credentials in app/config/packages/cooperl/laravel-db2/config.php
the same way as above
Consult the Laravel framework documentation.