Work in progress

Lots of work to do, but the connector can be used for get, create and update data from a Model.

I disabled "transaction" ORM feature.

#loopback-connector-ibmi

The loopback-connector-ibmi module is the LoopBack connector for DB2 for IBM i based on the project https://github.com/pierrickrouxel/loopback-connector-db2i

The connector ONLY WORKS NATIVE ON IBMi.

The LoopBack IBMi connector supports:

• All CRUD operations.
• Queries with fields, limit, order, skip and where filters.
• Native Connection.

Installation

In the loopback application directory: npm install loopback-connector-ibmi

The --save option adds the dependency to the application's package.json file.

Configuration

Use the data source generator (slc loopback:datasource) to add the IBMi data source to your application. The Datasource generator doesnt contain "IBMi" conector, but you can create it manual.

The entry in the application's server/datasources.json will look something like this:

"mydb": {
  "name": "mydb",
  "connector": "ibmi"
}

Edit server/datasources.json to add other supported properties as required:

"mydb": {
  "name": "mydb",
  "connector": "ibmi",
  "username": <username>,
  "password": <password>,
  "database": <database name>,
  "hostname": <db2 server hostname>,
  "port":     <port number>
}

The following table describes the connector properties.

Property	Type	Description
database	String	Database name
schema	String	Specifies the default schema name that is used to qualify unqualified database objects in dynamically prepared SQL statements. The value of this property sets the value in the CURRENT SCHEMA special register on the database server. The schema name is case-sensitive, and must be specified in uppercase characters
username	String	IBMi Username
password	String	IBMi password associated with the username above
hostname	String	IBMi server hostname or IP address

Alternatively, you can create and configure the data source in JavaScript code. For example:

var DataSource = require('loopback-datasource-juggler').DataSource;
var DB2 = require('loopback-connector-db2i');

var config = {
  username: "IBMi USER",
  password: "PASSWORD",
  hostname: "disibic22",
  port: 50000,
  database: 'D205973W',
  schema: 'ACL'
};

var db = new DataSource(DB2, config);


  

var User = db.define('USER', {
  name: { type: String },
  email: { type: String },
  SALARY: {type: Number},
  PERCENT: {type: Number},
});
// Find Existing User
 User.find({ where: { name: 'Gunnar' }}, function(err, users) {
    console.log(err, users);
  });

// Create existing user. ID doesnt need to be created in the model.
  User.create({
    id: 1,
    name: 'Test User',
    email: 'tony@t.com',
    SALARY: 12,
    PERCENT: 11.7666,
  }, function(err, user) {
    console.log(err, user);
  });