How to connect to Bluemix dashDB outside the Bluemix environment - ibm-cloud

Question

I have several tables in dashDB and I want to access them from another server in order to filter out the data and insert it to a database on my own server.
In dashDB, there is a Service Credentials section and I clicked "Add Credentials" and it outputted a json file with service credentials info.
I tried to run a simple PHP to test the connection :
<?php
$servername = "dashdb-entry-....";
$username = "dash....";
$password = "....";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>
and it fails. The error is as follow:
Connection failed: A connection attempt failed because the
connected party did not properly respond after a period of time,
or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
I checked service status of IBM and it seems that everything is running. Is it possible to access the dashDB outside the Blumix environment?

Answer 1

Yes it is possible to connect to dashDB from outside Bluemix. Here you can find some samples on how to connect to dashDB using several programming languages. Please take a look at the PHP Sample: One first difference I can see is that you are using mysqli while you should use db2_connect as in the sample.

Answer 2

You should be able to connect to the dashdb on bluemix using PHP. I also found the following link that explains this in detail.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.db2-connect.php
You can also use ODBC or JDBC method with proper drivers installed on the client and providing the connection credentials found under the
connect --> connection information
from the left hand side after you log in.
Murali