IBM Db2 on Cloud connection

To access your data in IBM Db2 on Cloud, create a connection asset for it.

Db2 on Cloud is an SQL database that is managed by IBM Cloud and is provisioned for you in the cloud.

Create a connection to Db2 on Cloud

To create the connection asset, you need the following connection details:

Database name
Hostname or IP address
Port number
Username and password

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.
You can use this option only if the Db2 service is hosted on the instance of Cloud Pak for Data that you are connecting to.

For Credentials, 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 > Prepare data > Connect to a data source. 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 Import assets > Data access > Connection. See Adding data assets 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 Db2 on Cloud connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
Data Replication (Data Replication service). You can replicate data to and from Db2 on Cloud using Data Replication. For more information, see Replicating Db2 on Cloud data.
Data Refinery (Watson Studio, IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition)
DataStage (DataStage service). For more information, see Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
Decision Optimization (Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning)
Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality. For information about the supported product versions and other prerequisites when connections are based on MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data scanners, see the Lineage Scanner Configuration section in the MANTA Automated Data Lineage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data Installation and Usage Manual. This documentation is available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6597457.

For metadata import (lineage), MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data and a corresponding license key must be installed. See Installing MANTA Automated Data Lineage and Enabling lineage import.
Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. For more information, see Load data from data source connections.
SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
Synthetic Data Generator (Synthetic Data Generator service)

Catalogs

Platform assets catalog
Other catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)

Data Product Hub: You can connect to this data source from Data Product Hub. For instructions, see Connectors for Data Product Hub.
Data Virtualization service: You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

This connection can be used on a FIPS-enabled cluster (FIPS tolerant); however, it is not FIPS-compliant.

Db2 on Cloud setup

Getting started with Db2 on Cloud

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Structured Query Language (SQL) topic in the Db2 on Cloud documentation for the correct syntax.

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Parent topic: Supported connections