Yes it is. In fact I just developed a few fixes last night and hope to merge them into SVN shortly.

I am wondering if this project is still live?

Thanks,
Ambrish Bhargava

I’ve noticed that cake tries to use default schema for logged user.
eg. If i login as db2admin it uses d2admin schema by default.

I submitted another ticket related to enhancement that one could choose current schema at database.php:
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2446

Thanks for the update. I’ll check out the ticket and try out a fix. Your report is very thorough :)

Now i’ve tested your example and already made bug report:
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/2444

I’m using DB2 express v 9.1.0

The ibm_db2 driver does support CLOBs, it wouldn’t be much use if it didn’t :).

In fact, one of the tables in the sample application DDL I developed to test the CakePHP uses a CLOB field.

From the context of that forum, the older driver that Knut is talking about is the old Unified ODBC driver used with the odbc_* functions, which have many problems, hence the release of a specific DB2 driver (db2_*, ibm_db2 extension).

Please give the sample application a test, which will show how the CakePHP driver works with CLOB tables in DB2, then try to adapt it to your tables.

There is also a forum at developerWorks that is monitored by the developers of the ibm_db2 extension and the PDO drivers.

“Old ibm_db2 interface of PHP does not support CLOBs/LOBs at all.”
“For large objects use the PHP PDO class library”

So basically this means that your interface doesn’t tackle all problems that lie between db2,php and cakephp framework.

It seems that only working setup is to use PHP5’s PDO class library and this in not supported at cakePHP since cake supports PHP 4 as well.. :(

So there are probably two choices:
1. Use PHP5,PDO and DB2 without cakePHP framework
2. Use PHP4/5 and MySQL/PostgreSQL with cakePHP framework?

I haven’t setted up ibm_db2 extension, cause i’ve used this
odbc_db2 “driver” and at AdoDB page
(http://phplens.com/adodb/supported.databases.html) it says:
“Connects to DB2 using generic ODBC extension.”
AdoDB also supports db2 “driver” which is described:
“Uses PHP’s db2-specific extension for better performance.”
Is this the same thing than the ibm_db2 extension (http://pecl.php.net/package/ibm_db2)?

Thanks :)

Unfortunately the new DB2 driver won’t be available in a stable build until CakePHP 1.2 becomes the production build. There hasn’t been a milestone set yet: https://trac.cakephp.org/milestone/1.2.x.x

You can get a head start on testing for that release by installing with 1.2 now and helping identify any problems you might encounter.

Some tips on getting set up:
http://krook.net/archives/180

How to submit bugs:
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/61f610f526de417c

Are you already set up with the ibm_db2 extension in your PHP build?