Package godb2

This package is a fork of the work of Patrick Higgins which had created a DB2 driver for the Go language.

When I tested this package, I found a runtime error "cgo argument has Go pointer to Go pointer" (Cf. issue #65 in github.com/alexbrainman/odbc) that needed to be fix as fast as possible.

Patrick Higgins had not updated this package since 2015, so I preferred to correct this problem myself (thanks to Mark Francis report). That's the story of this fork.

Original README:

The C API for DB2 is called CLI and is basically the same interface as ODBC. However, it can be used without configuring ODBC which simplifies usage for DB2-only projects.

This driver is based on code.google.com/p/odbc.

Building

The following cgo environment variables must be set before building this package:

• CGO_LDFLAGS
• CGO_CFLAGS

Here is a sample script which sets these variables:

#!/bin/bash

DB2HOME=$HOME/sqllib
export CGO_LDFLAGS=-L$DB2HOME/lib
export CGO_CFLAGS=-I$DB2HOME/include

go build .

Running

On Linux, LD_LIBRARY_PATH probably needs to be set to find the DB2 CLI libraries. Other platforms may have similar requirements.

This sample script demonstrates the bare minimum needed:

#!/bin/bash

DB2HOME=$HOME/sqllib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DB2HOME/lib

./dbtest -conn 'DATABASE=db; HOSTNAME=dbhost; PORT=40000; PROTOCOL=TCPIP; UID=me; PWD=secret;'

Note

On some DB2 instances (e.g. z/OS) you may have to connect to DB2-Connect which will forward connection requests to DB2. In theses cases you may run into something like:

SQLExecute: {42601} [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2] SQL0104N  An unexpected token " " was found following "". 
Expected tokens may include:  ". <IDENTIFIER> JOIN INNER LEFT RIGHT FULL CROSS , HAVING GROUP".  SQLSTATE=42601

Although not really obvious, this means that a terminator is missing for SQL statements. This may be due to a different parsing approach when DB2-Connect is involved. If you terminate your SQL statements with ';' you should be fine. Most of the times though you will connect directly to DB2 and SQL statements without ';' terminator work.

Sample program

package main

import (
    _ "bitbucket.org/phiggins/db2cli"
    "database/sql"
    "flag"
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "time"
)

var (
    connStr = flag.String("conn", "", "connection string to use")
    repeat  = flag.Uint("repeat", 1, "number of times to repeat query")
)

func usage() {
    fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, `usage: %s [options]

%s connects to DB2 and executes a simple SQL statement a configurable
number of times.

Here is a sample connection string:

DATABASE=MYDBNAME; HOSTNAME=localhost; PORT=60000; PROTOCOL=TCPIP; UID=username; PWD=password;
`, os.Args[0], os.Args[0])
    flag.PrintDefaults()
    os.Exit(1)
}

func execQuery(st *sql.Stmt) error {
    rows, err := st.Query()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer rows.Close()
    for rows.Next() {
        var t time.Time
        err = rows.Scan(&t)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        fmt.Printf("Time: %v\n", t)
    }
    return rows.Err()
}

func dbOperations() error {
    db, err := sql.Open("db2-cli", *connStr)
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer db.Close()
    // Attention: If you have to go through DB2-Connect you have to terminate SQL-statements with ';'
    st, err := db.Prepare("select current timestamp from sysibm.sysdummy1;")
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer st.Close()

    for i := 0; i < int(*repeat); i++ {
        err = execQuery(st)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
    }
    return nil
}

func main() {
    flag.Usage = usage
    flag.Parse()
    if *connStr == "" {
        fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "-conn is required")
        flag.Usage()
    }

    if err := dbOperations(); err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
    }
}