It basically is.  In the new /PDO command, the first 2 parms dsn & 
optiions are being catenated together with a period,:
$db = new \PDO($this->dsn . $this->options, $this->username,
     $this->password); 
So the first parm of the PDO becomes:
odbc:DRIVER={IBM i Access ODBC 
Driver};HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1;PROTOCOL=TCPIP;CCSID=1208;UID=user;PWD=password
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From:   "Kevin Adler" <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:   11/16/2020 11:09 AM
Subject:        Re: [IBMiOSS] PHP PDO dsn help
Sent by:        "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   I think you're putting the connection string information in the wrong
   place. The hostname, ccsid, etc should all be in the dsn string like in
   the second example here:
   [1]
https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-odbc.connection.php
    
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     From: MWHopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
     Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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     Cc:
     Subject: [EXTERNAL] [IBMiOSS] PHP PDO dsn help
     Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2020 8:49 AM
      
     I am trying to test a PHP implementation of SimpleSAMLPHP where I use 
an
     authorization that needs to sql a database on the IBMi. It looks like 
I
     have most of it set up properly, but my PDO connection fails. This is
     running in an Apache server running on that same IBMi.
     Here are the relevant sections of code where it fails:
     'dsn' => 'odbc:DRIVER={IBM i Access ODBC Driver};',
     'username' => '',
     'password' => '',
     'options' =>
     'HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1;PROTOCOL=TCPIP;CCSID=1208;UID=user;PWD=password',
     try {
     $db = new \PDO($this->dsn . $this->options, $this->username,
     $this->password);
     } catch (\PDOException $e) {
     throw new \Exception('PDPModule:'.$this->authId.': - Failed to 
connect
     to
     \''.
     $this->dsn.'\': '.$e->getMessage());
     }
     This is the message that I get back when I try to test it:
     SimpleSAML\Error\Error: UNHANDLEDEXCEPTION
     Backtrace:
     1 www/_include.php:17 (SimpleSAML_exception_handler)
     0 [builtin] (N/A)
     Caused by: Exception: PDPModule:PDPauthinstance: - Failed to connect 
to
     'odbc:DRIVER={IBM i Access ODBC Driver};': could not find driver
     Backtrace:
     5 modules/PDPModule/lib/Auth/Source/PDPAuth.php:101
     (SimpleSAML\Module\PDPModule\Auth\Source\PDPAuth::connect)
     4 modules/PDPModule/lib/Auth/Source/PDPAuth.php:136
     (SimpleSAML\Module\PDPModule\Auth\Source\PDPAuth::login)
     3 modules/core/lib/Auth/UserPassBase.php:317
     (SimpleSAML\Module\core\Auth\UserPassBase::handleLogin)
     2 modules/core/www/loginuserpass.php:84 (require)
     1 lib/SimpleSAML/Module.php:260 (SimpleSAML\Module::process)
     0 www/module.php:10 (N/A)
     I have installed the unixODBC and unixODBC-devel packages using the 
Open
     Source Package Management tool in ACS. I also downloaded and 
installed
     the
     latest IBMiAccess_v1r1_PASE_AP rpm using YUM.
     It appears that I am missing something to tell PHP where the driver 
is.
     I
     have an odbcinst.ini file (in /QOpenSys/etc) that looks like this:
     [IBM i Access ODBC Driver]
     Description=IBM i Access ODBC Driver
     Driver=/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libcwbodbc.so
     Threading=0
     DontDLClose=1
     UsageCount=2
     Can anyone point me in the direction of what to set to have it find 
the
     driver?
     Matt Hopkins
     Project Leader
     PDP Group, Inc.
     10909 McCormick Road
     Hunt Valley, MD 21031
     Office: 410.584.0330
     Fax: 410-584-0336
     Cell: 410.258.8845
     MWHopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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