3.2.3

 * update precompiled binaries (Bimal Jha)
 * fea: add support for pool.initAsync() API, PR #953, issue #952 (Bimal Jha)
 * fix: compilation issue on z/OS, define SQL_BOOLEAN, issue #961 (Bimal Jha)
 * build(deps): bump axios from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 (#964) (dependabot[bot])
 * fix promise bug of executeNonQuery api, issue #960 (Bimal Jha)
 * read Db2 credential from Env var for testing (Bimal Jha)

APIDocumentation.md

@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ try {
   console.log("data = ", data);
 } catch(err) {console.log(err);}
 ```
-Check [test-asyc-await.js](https://github.com/ibmdb/node-ibm_db/blob/master/test/test-asyc-await.js) for example.
+Check [test-asyc-await.js](https://github.com/ibmdb/node-ibm_db/blob/master/test/test-asyc-await.js#L50) for example.
 
 ### <a name="setMaxPoolSize"></a> 7) .setMaxPoolSize(N)
 

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+2023-11-16, Version 3.2.3
+=========================
+
+ * update precompiled binaries (Bimal Jha)
+
+ * fea: add support for pool.initAsync() API, PR #953, issue #952 (Bimal Jha)
+
+ * fix: compilation issue on z/OS, define SQL_BOOLEAN, issue #961 (Bimal Jha)
+
+ * build(deps): bump axios from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0 (#964) (dependabot[bot])
+
+ * fix promise bug of executeNonQuery api, issue #960 (Bimal Jha)
+
+ * read Db2 credential from Env var for testing (Bimal Jha)
+
+
 2023-09-23, Version 3.2.2
 =========================
 

README.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Async APIs return promises if callback function is not used. Async APIs supports
 
 - Make sure your system has C++ compiler installed that support C++11 standard.
 
-- For non-windows platforms: gcc compiler version >= 8.4 is required to install `ibm_db`. Default compiler on RHEL 6 does not have the required support.
+- For non-windows platforms: gcc compiler version >= 8.4 and `make` is required to install `ibm_db`. Default compiler on RHEL 6 does not have the required support.
 Install a newer compiler or upgrade older one.
 
 - For Windows: compiler is optional as `ibm_db` comes with pre-compiled binary on Windows64 for node.js version >= 12.x. To compile code on Windows, VC++ 2015.3 v14.00 (v140) or Visual Studio 2017 is required.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Install a newer compiler or upgrade older one.
 
 - **For Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):** Install `build-essentials` package before installing `ibm_db`.
 
-- **For MacOS:** Install XCode from appstore before installing `ibm_db`. Also, gcc@8 is required.
+- **For MacOS:** Install XCode from appstore before installing `ibm_db`. Also, gcc@8 and `make` is required.
 
 - On distributed platforms, you do need not to install any Db2 ODBC client driver for connectivity. `ibm_db` itself downloads and installs an odbc/cli driver from IBM website during installation. Just install `ibm_db` and it is ready for use.
 
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ Install a newer compiler or upgrade older one.
 - On z/OS and other non-Windows platform, `GNU make` is required to install `ibm_db`. Execute `make -v` command before installing `ibm_db` to make sure you have correct `make` set in PATH.
 
 - On z/OS only certain versions of node-gyp are supported. This was tested with:<br>
+z/OS v2.4
+Db2 v12.0
 node-gyp 3.4.0<br>
 npm 3.10.10<br>
 ibm_db: 2.8.1
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ ibm_db: 2.8.1
 
 - For Node.js >= V15.x on RHEL and RHEL 8.x, GCC v8.2.1 is required.
 
-- The latest node.js version using which `ibm_db` is tested: **20.7.0**
+- The latest node.js version using which `ibm_db` is tested: **21.2.0**
 
 ## Install
 
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ export npm_config_loglevel=silent => For silent mode installation.
 For **ELECTRON** or **VSCode** Installation:
 ```
 npm install ibm_db -electron=<electron_version>
-npm install ibm_db -electron="19.0.17"
+npm install ibm_db -electron="25.9.2"
 npm install ibm_db -vscode
 ```
 To install using **specific version of clidriver** from https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/software/data/db2/drivers/odbc_cli/:
@@ -511,6 +513,15 @@ flag `DEBUG` to the defines section of the `binding.gyp` file and then execute
 ],
 <snip>
 ```
+OR,
+```
+cd ibm_db
+npm install --debug
+```
+
+Above two method will enable debugging messages from C++ code. You can enable
+debugging messages from nodejs code by calling [ibmdb.debug(true)](https://github.com/ibmdb/node-ibm_db/blob/master/APIDocumentation.md#-38-debugvalue)
+api from your application.
 
 ### Unicode
 
@@ -566,7 +577,7 @@ define in `binding.gyp`
 
 ## Tips
 
-### Using node < v0.10 on Linux
+### Using more than 4 threads on Linux
 
 Be aware that through node v0.9 the uv_queue_work function, which is used to 
 execute the ODBC functions on a separate thread, uses libeio for its thread 

examples/test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// To run this test.ts file, follow below steps
+// npm install -g typescript
+// update database connection info in ../test/config.json file
+// tsc test.ts --lib es2015,dom
+// node test.js
+
+import * as ibmdb from '../'
+import * as common from '../test/common.js'
+
+let cn = common.connectionString
+  , pool = new ibmdb.Pool();
+
+async function  main(){
+  const query = `SELECT * FROM employee WHERE phoneno = ?;`
+
+  await pool.initAsync(1, cn)
+  const conn = await pool.open(cn)
+  const stmt = await conn.prepare(query)
+  const result = await stmt.execute([3978])
+
+  const fetched = await result.fetchAll()
+  console.log(fetched);
+  await conn.close()
+}
+
+main()

installer/driverInstall.js

@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ var install_node_ibm_db = function(file_url) {
                     odbcBindingsNode = 'build\/Release\/odbc_bindings' + fileName + '.node';
                     if(electronVersion[0] < 19) {
                         console.log("No precompiled electron binary available"+
-                                    " for electron " + electronVersion + "\n");
+                                    " for electron " + electron_version + "\n");
                         process.exit(1);
                     }
                 }
@@ -675,6 +675,7 @@ var install_node_ibm_db = function(file_url) {
                 }
                 // We have correct bindings file in odbcBindingsNode for
                 // installed node version now. Extract it from build.zip file.
+                printMsg("Extracting " + odbcBindingsNode + " from build.zip");
 
                 // Removing the "build" directory created by Auto Installation Process.
                 // "adm-zip" will create a fresh "build" directory for extraction of "build.zip".

lib/odbc.js

@@ -1338,27 +1338,23 @@ Database.prototype.describe = async function(obj, callback)
                 "anything productive to happen in the describe method."
     };
 
-  if (typeof(callback) !== "function")
-  {
+  if (typeof(callback) !== "function") {
     callback = null;
-    deferred = Q.defer();
   }
-
-  if (typeof(obj) !== "object")
-  {
-    deferred ? deferred.reject(error) : callback(error, []);
-    throw new Error(error.message);
+  if(!callback) {
+      deferred = Q.defer();
+  }
+  if (typeof(obj) !== "object") {
+    deferred ? deferred.reject(error) : callback && callback(error, []);
   }
 
-  if (!obj.database)
-  {
+  if (!obj.database) {
     error = {
       error : "[node-ibmdb] Missing Arguments",
       message : "The object you passed did not contain a database " +
                 "property. This is required for the describe method to work."
     };
-    deferred ? deferred.reject(error) : callback(error, []);
-    throw new Error(error.message);
+    deferred ? deferred.reject(error) : callback && callback(error, []);
   }
 
   //set some defaults if they weren't passed

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "ibm_db",
   "description": "IBM DB2 and IBM Informix bindings for node",
-  "version": "3.2.2",
+  "version": "3.2.3",
   "main": "lib/odbc.js",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/ibmdb/node-ibm_db/",
   "repository": {