I have one application with the db2 driver, but i have one problem, when the connection is done and i try to describe the model, the result is wrong, the columns types are something like this ‘åÁÙÃÈÁÙ’, and obviously cakephp dont work fine, because i can’t to determine the column type from tables. Can you tell me if the driver is stable or something i have to include?

Thanks for you help.

I hadn’t made updates in a while, but I recently received commit rights on the driver, so I intend to be more active maintaining it. Please do continue to report problems and I will try to address them in a timely fashion.

I did some small tests and had some problems (see also bug #4458), as an evaluation of the framework.
I like the cake framework, but was wondering about the DB2 driver: what is the current status of the DB2 driver?
Do you still work on/with cake, or in the near future and DB2?

Thanks,

Stefan Leuckx

Please let me know what is the current status of your DB2 driver for cakephp. I am considering using cake for a new project where the data lives in a DB2 database held on an AS/400 (iseries) computer. Will the driver work with that database?

Thanks for your help,
Steve

I replied to the trac ticket at cakephp.org. I can’t seem to run your changes locally, can you send me the file directly?

Thanks,
-Dan

1. db2_num_rows returns -1 for a SELECT statement.
The docs say that if you pass array(‘cursor’ => DB2_SCROLLABLE) to your execute statement then db2_num_rows will return a result but it did not work for me.
rowCount()

2. The way the describe array is created seems to be incompatable with the CakePHP’s Set::extract method

my fixes are here but i am sure there is a cleaner way
https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/3452#preview