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Support for ODBC was added in Profound.js 5.3.0. |
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An IBM account is required to access the downloads. Click on Downloads for IBM i Access Client Solutions, accept the license agreement, and use the ACS App Pkg link for the appropriate source operating system. For IBM i, use ACS PASE App Pkg. Installation instructions are included in each download package.
The IBM i version of the Application package installs via the open-source package manager "yum". See here for instructions on setting up yum on IBM i:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/706903
For Application Package installers for 32-bit Windows or languages other than English, visit the IBM ESS Website.
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Driver options can be specified directly, or alternatively via an ODBC Data Source. A Data Source is an OS-specific location (such as a file) where ODBC settings are stored. To use a Data Source, reference the name using the DSN (Data Source Name) property.
It's also possible to use a combination of these approaches – properties specified directly in "connectionString" will override the settings from a Data Source. For example, in the above configuration a Data Source named "myIBMi" is used, and the library list is overridden to "MYLIB, MYLIB2, MYLIB3".
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