Connecting to Db2

This section contains details for IBM Db2 connections.

General information

Field	Description
Data source	IBM Db2
Supported versions	4.27.25
Connection string	jdbc:db2://
Packaged?	Yes
Certified?	Yes
Supported features
Estimate job	Yes
Analyze data	Yes
Schedule	Yes
Processing capabilities
Pushdown	No
Spark agent	Yes
Yarn agent	Yes
Parallel JDBC	Yes
Java Platform version compatibility
JDK 8	Yes
JDK 11	Yes

Minimum user permissions

In order to bring your Db2 data into Collibra Data Quality & Observability, you need the following permissions.

• Read access on your Db2 tables.
• ROLE_ADMIN assigned to your user in Collibra DQ.

Recommended and required connection properties

Required	Connection Property	Type	Value
Yes	Name	Text	The unique name of your connection. Ensure that there are no spaces in your connection name.
Yes	Connection URL	String	The connection string path of your Db2 connection. When referring to the example below, replace the ${value} sections of the connection URL with your actual value. Example jdbc:db2://${host}:50000/owldb2
Yes	Driver Name	String	The driver class name of your Db2 connection. com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver
Yes	Port	Integer	The port number to establish a connection to the datasource. The default port is 50000
No	Source Name	String	N/A
No	Target Agent	Option	The Agent that submits your Spark job for processing.
Yes	Auth Type	Option	The method to authenticate your connection. Note The configuration requirements are different depending on the Auth Type you select. See Authentication for more details on available authentication types.
No	Properties	String	The configurable driver properties for your connection. Multiple properties must be comma delimited. For example, abc=123,test=true

Authentication

Select an authentication type from the dropdown menu. The options available in the dropdown menu are the currently supported authentication types for this data source.

Required	Field	Description
Yes	Username	The username of your Db2 account.
Yes	Password	The password of your Db2 account.
Yes	Script	The file path that contains the script file that the password manager uses to interact with and authenticate a user account. Example /tmp/keytab/db2_pwd_mgr.sh
No	Param $1	Optional. An additional parameters to authenticate your Db2 connection.
No	Param $2	Optional. An additional parameter to authenticate your Db2 connection.
No	Param $3	Optional. An additional parameter to authenticate your Db2 connection.

Limitations

Because the DATE_TRUNC does not exist in Db2 for z/OS operating systems, the date visualization graph under the Time Slice component on the Select rows step in Explorer will not load.