#Python support for IBM DB2 and IBM Informix

##Python, DB-API, Django/Django_jython and SQLAlchemy components for IBM DB2 and Informix

Provides Python, Django and SQLAlchemy support for IBM DB2 and Informix

Table of contents

Components

Downloads

Latest Updates

Support

Contributing to the ibm_db python project

Components (Python Eggs)

1. The ibm_db Python Egg contains:

   • ibm_db driver: Python driver for IBM DB2 and IBM Informix databases. Uses the IBM Data Server Driver for ODBC and CLI APIs to connect to IBM DB2 and Informix.
   • ibm_db_dbi: Python driver for IBM DB2 and IBM Informix databases that complies to the DB-API 2.0 specification. Checkout the README for getting started with ibm_db and ibm_db_dbi

2. The ibm_db_django: Django adapter for IBM DB2 databases. Supports latest Django versions and Django on Jython as well. Checkout the README for using DB2 with Django

3. The ibm_db_sa: SQLAlchemy adapter for IBM DB2 and IBM Informix databases. Supports SQLAlchemy 0.7.3 and above. Checkout the README to get you started

4. The ibm_db_alembic: Alembic adaptor for IBM DB2 databases. Supports Alembic-0.6.5 and above

Additional information is available in the README files provided in the Python Eggs and also the source repository. .

Downloads

Use following pypi web location for downloading source code and binaries

1. ibm_db: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibm_db .
2. ibm_db_django: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibm_db_django .
3. ibm_db_sa: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibm_db_sa .
4. ibm_db_alembic: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibm_db_alembic .

Latest Updates

Support for Alembic

Oct 29th 2014: IBM DB2 backend support in Alembic application is now available to the community. Right now it is in beta stage.

Support for Django

Nov 21th 2014: New Release of IBM_DB_DJANGO (1.0.7) with Django 1.7.x support made.

Support for SQLAlchemy

Oct 20th 2014: New Release of IBM_DB_SA (0.3.2) made.

Updated ibm_db

Oct 28th 2015: A new release 2.0.6 of ibm_db and ibm_db_dbi.

Note : 2.0.6 release is currently not available in https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ibm_db/ and ibm_db 2.0.5.1 will be replaced shortly with the new release ibm_db 2.0.6.

Support for Django on Jython

ibm_db_django supports Django on Jython (on Jython-Django v1.0.x and v1.1.x are supported).

Support

• Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ibm_db

• Development: opendev@us.ibm.com

Contributing to the ibm_db python project

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