IBM Db2 Big SQL connection
To access your data in IBM Db2 Big SQL, create a connection asset for it.
IBM Db2 Big SQL is a high performance massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL engine for Hadoop that makes querying enterprise data from across the organization an easy and secure experience.
Supported versions
Db2 Big SQL for Version 4.1+
Create a connection to IBM Db2 Big SQL
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Database name
- Hostname or IP address
- Port number
- Username and password
- SSL certificate (if required by the database server)
Credentials
If you select Shared, enter your username and password for the server.
If you select Personal, you have one of three choices:
- Enter your username and password for the server manually.
- Use secrets from a vault.
- Select platform login credentials. This option is available only if the Db2 Big SQL service is deployed on the instance of Cloud Pak for Data where you are creating the connection.
For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
- In a project
- Click Assets > New asset > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
- In a catalog
- Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
- In a deployment space
- Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
- In the Platform assets catalog
- Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Where you can use this connection
You can use IBM Db2 Big SQL connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
This list provides examples of how an IBM Db2 Big SQL connection can be used.
- Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Metadata enrichment (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
- SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
Catalogs
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Platform assets catalog
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Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Watson Query service
- You can connect to this data source from Watson Query.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance
The IBM Db2 Big SQL connection is compliant with FIPS. However, SSL certificates that you paste into the SSL certificate field are not supported. As a workaround, you can add the certificate to the OpenShift secret named connection-ca-certs.
See Using a CA certificate to connect to internal servers from the platform for the procedure.
IBM Db2 Big SQL setup
Running SQL statements
To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the IBM Db2 Big SQL documentation for the correct syntax.
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Parent topic: Supported connections