Loading data into Db2

Web console

The Db2 console allows to load Data from CSV files, Amazon S3, and Cloud Object Storage.

Command line

Loading methods that are supported by commands differ depending on whether you are using traditional storage or software-defined storage such as Red Hat® OpenShift® Data Foundation or Portworx.

Creating a staging area

Place the data, for example from flat files, in a folder that is visible under the System Storage area that you defined when you deployed Db2. System storage is shared. User data storage is not shared. Inside the Db2 container, the location for system storage is mounted as /mnt/blumeta0/ and you can create a staging area by running the following commands:

mkdir /mnt/blumeta0/load
chmod 777 /mnt/blumeta0/load

Using OpenShift to copy data to the staging area

You can use an OpenShift command to load data into the staging area. For example:

oc rsync source-directory db2oltp-1592325602159-db2u-0:/mnt/blumeta0/load

Using an NFS mount or container-defined storage tools to copy data to the staging area

NFS

The system storage area, exposed as an NFS persistent volume, can be directly mounted through an NFS mount.

Portworx

Portworx has an import command that loads files into the volume from a directory. You can transfer flat files to the Portworx volume from a directory. The directory should be accessible by the server where the Portworx volume is located.

For example, the following command imports data from a Portworx volume myVol that is located in the /path/to/files directory:

pxctl volume import --src /path/to/files myVol

For more information, see Create and manage volumes using pxctl in the Portworx documentation.

Load copy

Loaded data is copied by default to the /mnt/bludata0/db2/copy directory inside the Db2 container. After the loading process is completed, you can delete the data from this directory.