Re: Accessing mainframe DB2 in Java.

From:
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.lang.java.databases,comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:42:58 -0700
Message-ID:
<bQgFj.8030$Rq1.3962@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>
Arne VajhHj wrote:

zalek wrote:

On Mar 22, 5:14 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

zalek wrote:

I am a mainframe Cobol programmer (yes - Cobol programmers are still
around, mostly in caves) and I am writing a java code to access DB2.
In a Cobol world after each SQL command we are checking for return
conditions like success (sqlcode=0), not found (sqlcode = +100),
duplicates (sqlcode=803) and more.
How do you check for this conditions in Java?

Usually (possible always) the JDBC driver will throw an SQLException
if not success.


Yes - I know - but I would like to know what exactly happen. For
example - if I try to access a table using a variable as a key - I
would like to know "not found conditions" occurred to display correct
message. If database was down - I would like to know it too. Is there
a way in a java world to find it?


e.getErrorCode() will give you SQLCODE number.


Duh. You know I looked right at that in the Javadocs and because it
didn't say "getVendorCode" I didn't read any further? Ouch.

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