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<h1 class="title">IBM Functions (PDO_IBM)</h1>
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<h2 class="title">Introduction</h2>
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PDO_IBM is a driver that implements the <a href="intro.pdo.html" class="link">PHP Data
Objects (PDO)</a> interface to enable access from PHP to IBM databases.
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<h2 class="title">Installation</h2>
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To build the PDO_IBM extension, the DB2 Client v9.1 or later must be
installed on the same system as PHP. The DB2 Client can be downloaded
from the IBM <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/ad" class="link external">» Application Development
Site</a>.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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The DB2 Client v9.1 or later supports direct access to DB2 for Linux,
UNIX, and Windows v8 and v9.1 servers.
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The DB2 Client v9.1 also supports access to DB2 UDB for i5 and DB2 UDB
for z/OS servers using the separately purchased <a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/data/db2/db2connect" class="link external">» DB2
Connect product</a>.
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PDO_IBM is a <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> extension, so follow the
instructions in <a href="install.pecl.html" class="xref">Installation of PECL extensions</a> to install the PDO_IBM
extension. Issue the <strong class="command">configure</strong> command to point to the
location of your DB2 Client header files and libraries as follows:
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bash$ ./configure --with-pdo-ibm=/path/to/sqllib[,shared]
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The <strong class="command">configure</strong> command defaults to the value of the
<em>DB2DIR</em> environment variable.
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