IBM DB2 on AS400

Encrypting network traffic

It is a best practice to encrypt network traffic between the Looker application and your database. Consider one of the options that are described on the Enabling secure database access documentation page.

Supported JDBC parameters

For IBM DB2 on AS400, Looker supports the following JDBC parameters in the Additional JDBC parameters field for the connection. See the documentation for your database for information on these parameters.

  • access
  • auto commit
  • batch style
  • block size
  • blocking enabled
  • commit hold
  • concurrent access resolution
  • cursor hold
  • cursor sensitivity
  • data truncation
  • date format
  • date separator
  • decfloat rounding mode
  • decimal separator
  • direct map
  • errors
  • libraries
  • lob threshold
  • maximum blocked input rows
  • naming
  • password
  • user

Feature support

For Looker to support some features, your database dialect must also support them.

IBM DB2 for AS400 and System i supports the following features as of Looker 23.12:

Feature Supported?
Support Level Integration
Looker (Google Cloud core)
Symmetric Aggregates
Derived Tables
Persistent SQL Derived Tables
Persistent Native Derived Tables
Stable Views
Query Killing
SQL-based Pivots
Timezones
SSL
Subtotals
JDBC Additional Params
Case Sensitive
Location Type
List Type
Percentile
Distinct Percentile
SQL Runner Show Processes
SQL Runner Describe Table
SQL Runner Show Indexes
SQL Runner Select 10
SQL Runner Count
SQL Explain
Oauth Credentials
Context Comments
Connection Pooling
HLL Sketches
Aggregate Awareness
Incremental PDTs
Milliseconds
Microseconds
Materialized Views
Approximate Count Distinct