IBM DB2 Profile

Community plugin

Some core functionality may be limited. If you're interested in contributing, check out the source code for each repository listed below.

Overview of dbt-ibmdb2

Maintained by: Community
Author: Rasmus Nyberg
Source: GitHub
Core version: v1.0.4
dbt Cloud: Not Supported

The package can be installed from PyPI with:

pip install dbt-ibmdb2

This is an experimental plugin:

• We have not tested it extensively
• Tested with dbt-adapter-tests and DB2 LUW on Mac OS+RHEL8
• Compatibility with other dbt packages (like dbt_utils) is only partially tested

Connecting to IBM DB2 with dbt-ibmdb2

IBM DB2 targets should be set up using the following configuration in your profiles.yml file.

Example:

~/.dbt/profiles.yml

your_profile_name:
  target: dev
  outputs:
    dev:
      type: ibmdb2
      schema: analytics
      database: test
      host: localhost
      port: 50000
      protocol: TCPIP
      username: my_username
      password: my_password

Description of IBM DB2 Profile Fields

Option	Description	Required?	Example
type	The specific adapter to use	Required	ibmdb2
schema	Specify the schema (database) to build models into	Required	analytics
database	Specify the database you want to connect to	Required	testdb
host	Hostname or IP-adress	Required	localhost
port	The port to use	Optional	50000
protocol	Protocol to use	Optional	TCPIP
username	The username to use to connect to the server	Required	my-username
password	The password to use for authenticating to the server	Required	my-password

Supported features

DB2 LUW	DB2 z/OS	Feature
✅	🤷	Table materialization
✅	🤷	View materialization
✅	🤷	Incremental materialization
✅	🤷	Ephemeral materialization
✅	🤷	Seeds
✅	🤷	Sources
✅	🤷	Custom data tests
✅	🤷	Docs generate
✅	🤷	Snapshots

Notes

• dbt-ibmdb2 is built on the ibm_db python package and there are some known encoding issues related to z/OS.