#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](#latest updates)

Support

[Contributing to the ibm_db python project](#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

Jan 1st 2015: A new release 2.0.5.1 of ibm_db and ibm_db_dbi

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: [email protected]

Contributing to the ibm_db python project

Contributions Guidelines for Contributions