I am attempting to connect to an iseries running V54R. When I run a test in IRB it does not work: test is from (https://github.com/on-site/ibm_db) irb(main):001:0> gem ''ibm_db'' => true irb(main):002:0> require ''mswin32/ibm_db'' => true irb(main):003:0> IBM_DB.connect ''sample'', ''db2admin'', ''secret'' ArgumentError: uncaught throw :"Allocation of environment handle failed: <error message could not be retrieved>" from (irb):3:in `connect'' from (irb):3 from c:/Ruby192/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'' irb(main):004:0> the gem list command gives the following output *** LOCAL GEMS *** activerecord (3.2.13, 3.2.12, 3.2.8, 3.2.8.rc2, 3.2.6, 1.15.6) ibm_db (2.5.11 x86-mingw32) I have installed the DB2 drivers on my Windows 7 64bit PC. I also have the following in my path C:\PROGRA~2\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN; Any idea what I can check here? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.