Establishing a Connection

Creating a JDBC Data Source

You can create a JDBC data source to connect from your Java application. Creating a JDBC data source based on the CData JDBC Driver for DB2 consists of three basic steps:

Add the driver JAR file to the classpath. The JAR file is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory. Note that the .lic file must be located in the same folder as the JAR file.
Provide the driver class. For example:
```
cdata.jdbc.DB2.DB2Driver
```
Provide the JDBC URL. For example:
```
jdbc:DB2:Server=10.0.1.2;Port=50000;User=admin;Password=admin;Database=test

or

jdbc:cdata:DB2:Server=10.0.1.2;Port=50000;User=admin;Password=admin;Database=test
```
The second format above can be used whenever there is a conflict in your application between drivers using the same URL format to ensure you are using the CData driver. The URL must start with either "jdbc:DB2:" or "jdbc:cdata:DB2:" and can include any of the connection properties in name-value pairs separated with semicolons.

Set the following properties to connect to DB2:

Server: Set this to the name of the server running DB2.
Port: Set this to the port the DB2 server is listening on.
Database: Set this to the name of the DB2 database.
User: Set this to the username of a user allowed to access the database.
Password: Set this to the password of a user allowed to access the database.