Hi Grant,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:58:48AM -0400, Grant Hutchison wrote:
>  After reading all of my email (I was on vacation for 2 weeks ;->) I came
>  across 7 interested parties in total.

I am interested too, as I'm using Rails with DB/2 as part of my job.

>  DB2 UDB v8.2 has a very nice feature called HADR with Client Reroute that
>  can provide a primary/standby database server configuration that is highly
>  available and this technology should work within a Ruby application since
>  the automatic reroute to the active database server is handled within the C
>  runtime layer. The transaction performance of DB2 is also a great reason to
>  consider deploying any application with DB2 instead of another RDBMS (just
>  some thoughts).

This is a great feature. Is any modification needed to benefit from this
from say a C app written to the CLI, or is this an external configuration?
We've been handling failover manually, and this would make our lives that
much easier.

>  I would like to consider getting more involved in enhancing the DB2 support
>  with the Ruby community if there is sufficient demand.

Apart from improved Ruby drivers, the Rails adapter needs some work too.
In particular, DB2's inability to limit rows returned from a query to a
range needs to be worked around by using subqueries. It would be great to
be able to have top-notch DB/2 support out of the box.

Bye,
	Andrea

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