DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Configuring the development environment for application programming interfaces

Part of configuring for DB2® database application development is configuring the development environment for any application programming interfaces (APIs) that you will use in your applications.

Before you begin

To configure the application development environment for the application programming interfaces (APIs) that you will use, you must have:

An IBM® data server client installed
The API drivers installed
- See Supported database application programming interfaces.
For the ODBC API only: an ODBC driver manager installed
- See Setting up the Windows CLI environment.

Procedure

To configure the development environment for APIs, do the following steps:

For ADO .NET, see "ADO.NET development for IBM Data Servers" for details.
For CLI and ODBC, perform any of the following tasks that apply to your environment:
- Setting up your application development environment to run CLI and ODBC applications
- Setting up the UNIX ODBC Driver Manager
For Embedded SQL, perform the following task: Setting up the embedded SQL development environment.
For JDBC and SQLJ, perform the following task: Installing the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ.
For OLE DB, see "IBM OLE DB Provider for DB2" for details.
For Perl, see "Perl DBI" for details.
For PHP, perform one of the following tasks:
- Set up the PHP environment on Linux or UNIX.
- Set up the PHP environment on Windows.
For Ruby/Ruby on Rails, perform any of the tasks that are listed in "The IBM_DB Ruby driver and Rails adapter" that apply to your environment.
For Python, perform the task "Setting up the Python environment for IBM data servers".