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loopback-connector-ibmi #10

Closed jstouthamhawk closed 2 years ago

jstouthamhawk commented 2 years ago

So I am trying to gather info on this connector. Is there no desire for this this connector to work on ubuntu and connect to ibmi? I am getting started on open source and trying to create a loopback app from wsl ubuntu to use odbc to connect to ibmi. I read the doc that has Linux directions but encountered an error implementing the data source. Some of the comments on the loopback-connector-ibmi github page leads me to believe that at one point it was decided that no one desired to use this from Linux. I am trying to connect from ubuntu on wsl since I have more freedom to develop in that environment.

markdirish commented 2 years ago

You absolutely can use this connector from Linux. It uses an ODBC connector to connect to IBM i, so any operating system that can run Node.js and has an ODBC driver for IBM i should work. If you need setup instructions for ODBC and the IBM i driver, instructions can be found here.

If you need more help figuring out the connection mechanism/connection string options, feel free to post on the issues for the package and I can help you out.

ThePrez commented 2 years ago

Closing as I think this is resolved. Please reopen (or open a new issue) if this is in error. Thanks!