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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Open Source and PASE
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 5, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Make available in ibm yum repo major ODBC DBMS

Would be nice and of value having major DBMS available in IBM yum repo readily available to pull.

For example we have already in @ibmi-base freetds-odbc.ppc64 for freetds

would be nice to have for example mysql odbc, postgres compiled for PASE.

thanks

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Apr 27, 2026
    Ok, that makes sense. We cannot commit to this in the near term but will keep in mind for the future.
    Reply
  • Guest
    Apr 27, 2026
    Thank you for clarifying. As an alternative, MySQL/MariaDB can be accessed easily from Python by installing PyMYSQL using pip and for Postgres we have psycopg2 package available for use. For Node.js, there are mariadb and node-postgres packages available. Do you want to access these databases from a different language where an ODBC driver would be beneficial? Or are these alternatives lacking in some way compared to an ODBC driver?
    1 reply
  • Guest
    Apr 27, 2026

    Yes, I here mean the client odbc drivers available as a ready to install package in PASE for mainstream DBMS.

    (not the DBMS itself).

    Do they require the install of the full DBMS (or included there)?

    Reply
  • Guest
    Apr 10, 2026
    Please provide more clarity on what packages you would like. For example, FreeTDS is not a DBMS but a set of client libraries and ODBC driver for accessing MSSQL servers. In addition, we already provide Postgres and MariaDB DBMS packages. Are you looking for client libraries / ODBC drivers for these databases or for the DBMSes themselves?
    1 reply
  • Guest
    Mar 16, 2026

    Looking at this ...

    Reply

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