IBM DB2 setup

Community plugin

Some core functionality may be limited. If you're interested in contributing, check out the source code for each repository listed below.

• Maintained by: Community
• Authors: Rasmus Nyberg (https://github.com/aurany)
• GitHub repo: aurany/dbt-ibmdb2
• PyPI package: dbt-ibmdb2
• Slack channel: n/a
• Supported dbt Core version: v1.0.4 and newer
• dbt Cloud support: Not Supported
• Minimum data platform version: IBM DB2 V9fp2

Installing dbt-ibmdb2

Use pip to install the adapter. Before 1.8, installing the adapter would automatically install dbt-core and any additional dependencies. Beginning in 1.8, installing an adapter does not automatically install dbt-core. This is because adapters and dbt Core versions have been decoupled from each other so we no longer want to overwrite existing dbt-core installations. Use the following command for installation:

Configuring dbt-ibmdb2

For IBM DB2-specific configuration, please refer to IBM DB2 configs.

This is an experimental plugin:

• We have not tested it extensively
• Tested with dbt-adapter-tests and DB2 LUW on Mac OS+RHEL8
• Compatibility with other dbt packages (like dbt_utils) is only partially tested

Connecting to IBM DB2 with dbt-ibmdb2

IBM DB2 targets should be set up using the following configuration in your profiles.yml file.

Example:

~/.dbt/profiles.yml

your_profile_name:
  target: dev
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: ibmdb2
      schema: analytics
      database: test
      host: localhost
      port: 50000
      protocol: TCPIP
      username: my_username
      password: my_password

Description of IBM DB2 Profile Fields

Option	Description	Required?	Example
type	The specific adapter to use	Required	ibmdb2
schema	Specify the schema (database) to build models into	Required	analytics
database	Specify the database you want to connect to	Required	testdb
host	Hostname or IP-adress	Required	localhost
port	The port to use	Optional	50000
protocol	Protocol to use	Optional	TCPIP
username	The username to use to connect to the server	Required	my-username
password	The password to use for authenticating to the server	Required	my-password

Supported features

DB2 LUW	DB2 z/OS	Feature
✅	🤷	Table materialization
✅	🤷	View materialization
✅	🤷	Incremental materialization
✅	🤷	Ephemeral materialization
✅	🤷	Seeds
✅	🤷	Sources
✅	🤷	Custom data tests
✅	🤷	Docs generate
✅	🤷	Snapshots

Notes

• dbt-ibmdb2 is built on the ibm_db python package and there are some known encoding issues related to z/OS.