Hi,
Which version of application server are you using? I do not see any issues around here. And with your pool configuration, i was able to ping successfully. Maybe you could add the additional property "connectionAttributes" with value "create=true". But thats for a different failure that complains your database is not found.
Regards,
Shalini.
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