DB2 driver settings in Websphere Liberty - db2

Question

I have application running in Websphere Liberty and uses DB2 in Z/oS. I have set the db2 driver proerties in DB2JCCConfiguration.properties .How can make sure that the server has picked up properties I have set .I am not sure how to verify the trace to see if the properties are applied to server

Answer 1

To configure a datasource (for any backend DB) with Liberty, you can add configuration like this to your server.xml:
<featureManager>
<feature>jdbc-4.2</feature>
</featureManager>
<library id="driver-library">
<fileset dir="/path/to/driver/dir" includes="*.jar"/>
</library>
<dataSource id="DefaultDataSource" jndiName="jdbc/myDB">
<jdbcDriver libraryRef="driver-library"/>
<properties.db2.jcc serverName="example.db.hostname.com" portNumber="50000"
databaseName="myDB"
user="exampleUser"
password="examplePassword"
currentSchema="xyz"
fullyMaterializeInputStreams="true"/>
</dataSource>
To test if your configuration is correct and that your Liberty server can connect to your DB2 database, add the following configuration:
<featureManager>
<feature>appSecurity-3.0</feature>
<feature>restConnector-2.0</feature>
<feature>jdbc-4.2</feature>
</featureManager>
<!-- Any security mechanism can be used, <quickStartSecurity> is the simplest -->
<quickStartSecurity userName="admin" userPassword="admin"/>
And then go to: https://localhost:9443/ibm/api/validation/dataSource/DefaultDataSource
(this assumes your <dataSource> id is DefaultDataSource)
For more info, see this cheat sheet: https://aguibert.github.io/openliberty-cheat-sheet/#_ibm_db2