v5r4 PASE. was: PHP update and directions

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/25/06, Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >> An AIX binary running in PASE can access native mode DB2? How does that
> work? Are there APIs for that?
>
> Yes - although I'm not sure if all the APIs are public yet.  There have been
> a number of such "through the wall" APIs between PASE and i5/OS for some
> time now.
>
> IBM worked with zend to introduce a number of additional APIs to make all
> this work.  It is one of the reasons why it is limited to V5R4 at present.

I dont see mention of the PASE improvements on the v5r4 infocenter site:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzalf/rzalfwhatsnew.htm

here is the documentation on accessing the i5 database from PASE:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzalf/rzalfdatabase.htm

all that is mentioned is SQL CLI.

just academic interest on my part. IBM lets me download all the latest
AIX software for no charge, but I cant afford v5r4.

-Steve