Programming the Perl DBI

Name

DBD::DB2

General Information

Driver version

DBD::DB2 version 0.71

Feature summary

Transactions                           Yes
Locking                                Yes, implicit and explicit
Table joins                            Yes, inner and outer
LONG/LOB datatypes                     Yes, up to 2 GB
Statement handle attributes available  After prepare(  )
Placeholders                           Yes, "?" (native)
Stored procedures                      Yes
Bind output values                     No
Table name letter case                 Insensitive, stored as uppercase
Field name letter case                 Insensitive, stored as uppercase
Quoting of otherwise invalid names     Yes, via double quotes
Case-insensitive "LIKE" operator       No
Server table ROW ID pseudocolumn       No
Positioned update/delete               Yes
Concurrent use of multiple handles     Unrestricted

Author and contact details

Support for the DBD::DB2 driver is provided by IBM through its service agreements for DB2 UDB. Any comments, suggestions, or enhancement requests can be sent via email to [e-mail]. Please see the web site at:

http://www.ibm.com/data/db2/perl

for more information.

Supported database versions and options

The DBD::DB2 driver supports DB2 UDB V5.2 and later.

Here are some URLs to more database/driver-specific information:

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/perl

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/library

http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/udb/ad

Differences from the DBI specification

The only significant difference in behavior from the current DBI specification is the way in which datatypes are specified in the bind_ param( ) method. Please see the information ...