Connect Soda to IBM DB2
Last modified on 31-May-23
For Soda to run quality scans of your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source.
- For Soda Core, add the connection configurations to your
configuration.yml
file. Read more. - For Soda Cloud, add the connection configurations to step 3 of the New Data Source workflow. Read more.
Configuration
Install package: soda-core-db2
data_source my_datasource_name:
type: db2
host: localhost
port: 50000
username: xxx
password: ...
database:
schema:
Property | Required | Notes |
---|---|---|
type | required | |
host | required | |
port | optional | |
username | required | Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. |
password | required | Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. |
database | required | |
schema | required |
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 returns 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 |
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Last modified on 31-May-23