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IBM Db2

IBM Db2 is a high-performance, enterprise-grade relational database system designed for reliability, scalability, and transactional integrity.

Bruin supports DB2 as a source for Ingestr assets, and you can use it to ingest data from DB2 into your data warehouse.

In order to set up DB2 connection, you need to add a configuration item in the .bruin.yml file and in asset file.

Follow the steps below to correctly set up DB2 as a data source and run ingestion.

Step 1: Add a connection to .bruin.yml file

To connect to DB2, you need to add a configuration item to the connections section of the .bruin.yml file. This configuration must comply with the following schema:

yaml
  db2:
    - name: "db2"
      username: "user_123"
      password: "pass_123"
      host: "localhost"
      port: 50000
      database: "testdb"
  • username: The username to connect to the database
  • password: The password for the user
  • host: The host address of the database server
  • port: The port number the database server is listening
  • database: the name of the database to connect to

Step 2: Create an asset file for data ingestion

To ingest data from DB2, you need to create an asset configuration file. This file defines the data flow from the source to the destination. Create a YAML file (e.g., db2_ingestion.yml) inside the assets folder and add the following content:

yaml
name: public.db1
type: ingestr
connection: neon

parameters:
  source_connection: db2
  source_table: 'test.user'

  destination: postgres
  • name: The name of the asset.
  • type: Specifies the type of the asset. Set this to ingestr to use the ingestr data pipeline.
  • connection: This is the destination connection, which defines where the data should be stored. For example: postgres indicates that the ingested data will be stored in a Postgres database.
  • source_connection: The name of the DB2 connection defined in .bruin.yml.
  • source_table: The name of the data table in DB2 that you want to ingest.

Step 3: Run asset to ingest data

bruin run assets/db2_ingestion.yml

As a result of this command, Bruin will ingest data from the given DB2 table into your Postgres database.

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