Question

I’ve dug around through previously asked questions and have had no luck finding a duplicate. I would love to generate basic entity classes in .Net from a DB2 schema (using the iSeries OLEDB provider). Is there any simple way to do this? I’ve looked into MyGeneration and CodeSmith and it just seems like there must be an easier way.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT
I’m taking the iSeries tag off of this in hopes that it will de-scarify the question a bit. Anyone have anything that they’ve used against any ADO.Net or OLEDB provider? I think I could adapt it to work with iSeries.

EDIT #2 Adding the iSeries tag back on and will accept my own answer in a couple of days, hopefully this will help someone in the future. +1 to responders, thanks.

Answer 1

After more research, I decided to write the code generator myself. Part of the reason I asked was because the iSeries provider for .Net isn’t very robust, so there’s no given way to enumerate schema information. However, after finding this question, I was able to do it using simple inline SQL like this:

//Enumerate schema tables (excludes views)
select table_name from qsys2.tables where table_schema = 'schema_name' and table_type = 'BASE TABLE'

//Enumerate table columns
select * from qsys2.columns where table_schema = 'schema_name' and table_name = 'table_name' order by ordinal_position;

Maybe this will help someone in the future.