Connect Soda to IBM DB2

Access configuration details to connect Soda to an IBM DB2 data source.

For Soda to run quality scans on your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source. To learn how to set up Soda and configure it to connect to your data sources, see Get started.

Compatibility

Soda supports connections to IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows (LUW). Soda does not support connections to IBM DB2 for z/OS. Refer to IBM Developer documentation for more information.

Connection configuration reference

Install package: soda-db2

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: db2
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 50000
  username: simple
  password: simple_pass
  database: database
  schema: public

Property	Required	Notes
type	required	Identify the type of data source for Soda.
host	required	Provide a host identifier.
port	required	Provide a port identifier.
username	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
password	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
database	required	Provide an identifier for your database.
schema	optional	Provide an identifier for the schema in which your dataset exists.

Test the data source connection

To confirm that you have correctly configured the connection details for the data source(s) in your configuration YAML file, use the test-connection command. If you wish, add a -V option to the command to return results in verbose mode in the CLI.

soda test-connection -d my_datasource -c configuration.yml -V

Supported data types

Category	Data type
text	VARCHAR
number	INT, INTEGER, DOUBLE, FLOAT
time	DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP