DB2/400 Storage Engine for MySQL Now Available as Public Beta | Database Journal

DB2/400 Storage Engine for MySQL Now Available as Public Beta

Mar 12, 2009
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[From IT Jungle]

MySQL and IBM last week started a public beta for the new DB2 for i (IBMDB2i) Storage Engine for the MySQL database, a long-awaited product that will allow System i shops to care and feed for their MySQL-based PHP applications running on their i OS server just as they do for ordinary DB2 for i (DB2/400) applications. The Storage Engine will be available for customers at V5R4 and i 6.1 versions of the operating system, but they must install several PTFs first.

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