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Re: DB2 JDBC Type 4 Support?

From: Shreedhar Ganapathy <Shreedhar.Ganapathy_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:27:44 -0800

cc'ing the dev and users aliases for broader audience and any further ideas.

Shreedhar Ganapathy wrote:
> Hi Iran
> Could you try the solution in this forum entry?
> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=730463&messageID=4203771
>
> If it works please let us know, I will follow up with the appropriate
> team for doc updates.
>
> regards
> Shreedhar
>
> iran_at_nc.rr.com wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. We are already familiar with the Type 2 driver
>> documentation. It requires you to catalog your DB2 database on the
>> application server machine and have the native driver *.so or *.dll
>> available in the application server classpath. This is not our desired
>> configuration. The only listed Type 4 driver is the Sun driver made
>> from Data Direct drivers. Those drivers are only available for client
>> development stations unless we are missing something. From our
>> research, it seems you'd have to buy server licenses which we are trying
>> to avoid as we have the DB2 drivers that work elsewhere.
>>
>> Iran.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: sreeni <smunnangi_at_gmail.com>
>> Date: Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:29 pm
>> Subject: Re: DB2 JDBC Type 4 Support?
>> To: issues_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>> Cc: quality_at_glassfish.dev.java.net
>>
>>
>>> Pl. refer to Sun Java System Application Server 9.0 doc.
>>> specifically on
>>> support for
>>> IBM DB2 8.1 and 8.2 Type 2 Driver
>>>
>>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-3658/6n5s5nklf?a=view
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> sreeni
>>>
>>>
>>> Iran Hutchinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are trying to use GlassFish for several large projects(ranging
>>>>
>>> from
>>>
>>>> 3,000 users to > 200,000) and one database we have to connect to
>>>>
>>> is
>>>
>>>> DB2 8.2. The URL:
>>>>
>>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/matrix.html
>>>
>>>> says this has been tested but there is no documentation for
>>>> configuring a Type 4 JDBC driver for DB2 only a Type 2 driver
>>>>
>>> which we
>>>
>>>> don't use. We are experiencing several issues with connection
>>>> pooling configuration and usage ranging from timeouts on
>>>>
>>> connections
>>>
>>>> where there should be none to not being able to get a new
>>>>
>>> connection
>>>
>>>> after a period of time. One killer is that we cannot connect to
>>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>>> database that we only have access to stored procedures, we cannot
>>>> configure it to validate on "table" as we have no access to
>>>>
>>> tables.
>>>
>>>> All the other validation methods lead to a myriad TCP/IP
>>>>
>>> disconnect
>>>
>>>> errors.
>>>>
>>>> We filed a bug to document some of what we are experiencing:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?submit=Go+to&id=1377
>>>
>>>> . Is the DB2 JDBC Type 4 driver supported for connection pooling
>>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>>> will it be supported? We are hoping it is a configuration issue,
>>>>
>>> but
>>>
>>>> can't get confirmation on that either. We have not had this
>>>>
>>> issue on
>>>
>>>> the other application servers with the IBM DB2 driver, so we were
>>>> assuming either a bug or a miss-configuration. We'd be willing
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> help in anyway needed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Iran.
>>>>
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