noxDB – Not Only XML…

noxDB is an opensource framework that makes it easy to work with XML, JSON and SQL with one single approach - from within RPG.

You can find examples and documentation on the Sitemule documentation website.

Installation

Installation of noxDB should be done with git and gmake (GNU Make), which are available via yum - Here you can read more about yum:

yum.

Also ensure that the open source tools are available in your path, according to this:

set open source path

This "master" branch is widely used, but the core graph is stored in EBCDIC. We are keeping this "master" as is and supporting it. However, for any new projects, rather use the "main" branch where everything is stored in UTF-8 and the prototypes have been cleaned up and have great new features.

ssh my_ibm_i
mkdir /prj
cd /prj
git -c http.sslVerify=false clone https://github.com/sitemule/noxDB.git
cd noxDB
gmake

This will create:

• The NOXDB library
• NOXDB/JSONXML service program.
• NOXDB/QRPGLEREF.XMLPARSER for the XML noxDB API prototypes.
• NOXDB/QRPGLEREF.JSONPARSER for the JSON noxDB API prototypes.
• NOXDB/NOXDB binding directory, with the JSONXML object on it.

Build the distribution.

When you have made the project in library NOXDB, you can create the release as a savefile

ssh my_ibm_i
cd /prj/noxDB
gmake clean release

Note

This "master" branch is widely used, but the core graph is stored in EBCDIC. we are keeping this "master" as is and support it. However, for any new projects rather use the "main" branch where anything is stored in UTF-8 and the prototypes has been cleaned up and have great new features.

Further Reading

Want some further reading on noxDB? See Andy Youens PowerWire article on noxDB here.