What is Mapepire: Mapepire is an open-source client to connect applications to the Db2 for i database. It’s written in JavaScript and built using secure web sockets.Benefits of using Mapepire:The existing JDBC and ODBC clients take on very heavy loads to deal with a lot of things. This makes the client code complex. This complex code leads to significant performance overhead. Mapepire clients are lighter as the server part of them is going to take care of the “other things” like encoding. It eliminates native dependencies on the client side. Also the server, the protocol and client part of mapepire being open source, the task of creating new clients in other languages will not at all be taxing as is the case with JDBC and ODBC due to them being not well documented. It’s easy to deploy in cloud environments and also easy to install and use as it is available to install through the commonly used package managers (of different languages) like NPM, Apache maven, PyPi and also Yum.How can customers use it:1. A server component has to be installed first and started on the server. This can be done using yum.2. Getting started with the client is easy and it’s either starting up a daemon server object that will connect with the server component or an API in case of Node.js which connects with IBM i.
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