def __init__(self):
# set up coms link
# todo: at the moment, if this fails it will try to use the default config. Sort that out
try:
self._config = figConfig.get_config("odbc")
ISeriesComs._SYSTEM = self._config["system"]
ISeriesComs._UID = self._config["username"]
ISeriesComs._PWD = self._config["password"]
self._config = figConfig.get_config("log")
ISeriesComs._library = self._config["library"]
ISeriesComs._file = self._config["file"]
except IOError as e:
# decide something sensible to happen here
print "There was an error getting the iSeries sign on configuration"
connection_string = 'DRIVER=' + ISeriesComs._DRIVER + ';SYSTEM=' + ISeriesComs._SYSTEM + ';UID=' + ISeriesComs._UID + ';PWD=' + ISeriesComs._PWD + ';DBQ=' + ISeriesComs._DBQ + ';EXTCOLINFO=' + ISeriesComs._EXTCOLINFO
con = pyodbd.connect(connection_string)
self.cur = con.cursor()
