DB2 Ingestion
Creating DB2 Source
For creating a DB2 source, see Source Creation. Ensure that the Source Type selected is DB2.
Configuring DB2 Source
For configuring a DB2 source, see Source Configuration.
DB2 Settings
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Fetch Data Using | The mechanism through which Infoworks fetches data from the database. The option includes JDBC. |
| Connection URL | The connection URL through which Infoworks connects to the database. Sample format: jdbc:db2://ip:port/databasename |
| Username | The username for the connection to the database. |
| Password | The password for the username provided. |
| Source Schema | The schema in the database to be crawled. The schema value is case sensitive. |
Once the setting is saved, you can test the connection or navigate to the Source Configuration page to crawl the metadata.
Crawling DB2 Source Metadata
For crawling a DB2 source, see Crawling Metadata .
Configuring DB2 Source for Ingestion
For configuring a DB2 source for ingestion, see Configuring Source for Ingestion.
DB2 Configurations
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Ingest Type | The types of synchronization that can be performed on the table. The options include Full Load, Timestamp-Based Incremental Ingestion, Query Based Incremental Ingestion, Batch ID Based Incremental Ingestion, Log Based Incremental Ingestion. |
| Segmented Load Status | The option to crawl large tables by breaking into smaller chunks. The smaller chunks can be crawled in parallel. Select the column to Perform Segmented Load On. To derive a column, check the Use substring from field option and select the Extract function. After completing the Segmented Load, ensure to set this value to Completed to submit Incremental Load or Full Load jobs. NOTE: I_n case of date, datetime, timestamp column types you can extract new columns. The possible extraction options are year, month, year-month, month-day and day-num-in-month._ |
Source Configuration | |
| Natural Keys | The key to identify the row uniquely. This key is used to identify and merge incremental data with the existing data on target. Distribution of data into secondary partitions for a table on target will be computed based on the hashcode value of the natural key. This field is mandatory for incremental ingestion tables. NOTE: The value of natural key column cannot be updated when updating a row on source; all the components of the natural key are immutable. |
| Split by | The option to crawl the table in parallel with multiple connections to database. Split-by column can be an existing column in the data or derived from an existing column. The numbers, date, datetime and timestamp columns are allowed to be selected as split-by key. In general, any column for which min and max can be computed can be a split-by key. NOTE: Keys which increase or decrease gradually can be used as split-by. To derive a column, check the Use substring from field option and select the Extract function. |
Synchronization Configuration | |
| CDC Start Date | The option to fetch a specific portion of the delta, based on the time window. The start date of the time window. |
| CDC End Date | The option to fetch a specific portion of the delta, based on the time window. The end date of the time window. |
| Enable Schema Synchronization | The option to synchronize the Hive table schema, if the source table is modified after the table ingestion is complete. |
| Timestamp-Based Incremental Load | |
| Timestamp Column for Insert | The source column to be used as insert watermark. |
| Timestamp Column for Update | The source column to be used as update watermark. NOTE: It can also be the source column to be used as insert watermark. |
| Query-Based Incremental Load | |
| Slowly Changing Dimension Type | The type of the query based ingestion. The options include SCD Type 1 and SCD Type 2. SCD Type 1 always overwrites the existing record in case of updates. |
| Configure Insert Query | The option to input the query which identifies and fetches the incremental insert records from the source table, using the record insertion row from the audit table. |
| Join Column for Insert | The column used to identify the inserts. This column will be joined with audit table column. This field uses source datatype. |
| Configure Update Query | The option to input the query which identifies and fetches the incremental update records from the source table, using the record update row from the audit table. |
| Join Column for Update | The column used to identify the updates. This column will be joined with audit table column. |
| External Audit Schema Name | The schema name of the audit table where the timestamps are being stored. |
| External Audit Table Name | The name of the audit table where the timestamps are being stored. |
| External Audit Join Column | The column by which the data table and the audit table will be joined. |
| External Audit Timestamp Column | The timestamp column in the audit table, which maintains record audit. |
| BatchID-Based Incremental Load | |
| Batch-ID Column | This column used for fetching of delta. This column must be a numeric column. Source datatype and target datatype must be equal. |
| Start Batch Id | The numeric value of Batch ID column (configured by the user during table configurations) starting which the delta is fetched. |
| End Batch Id | Numeric value of Batch ID column (configured by the user during table configurations) till which the delta is fetched. |
| Log-Based Incremental Load | |
| Change Schema Name | The schema where the replicated table is available. |
| Change Table Name | The table name of the replicated table. If the database user or database admin enables the change data capture for the table using an explicit name for the table and for the schema, then the change table name and change schema name must be specified. |
| Target Configuration | |
| Hive Table Name | The name of the table in Hive which will be used to access the ingested data. |
| Storage Format | The format of the data file to be stored in HDFS. The options include ORC and Parquet. |
| Partition Hive Table on | The option to partition the data in target. The partition column also can be derived for date, datetime and timestamp column. This will further partition the data. A hierarchy of partitions are supported with both normal partitions and derived partitions. NOTES: Ensure that the partition columns data is immutable. You can also provide a combination of normal and derived partitions in the hierarchy. |
| Extract a New Column | Check this option for supported datatypes to derive a partition from an existing column. NOTE: Fill the corresponding field values based on the derived type. |
| Is Epoch | When extracting a new column, checking this field indicates whether the selected column is epoch. This allows you to select the partitions from epoch value based on the date’s function. For example, year month, year, month, date. Epoch is supported for all numeric datatypes except int and float. |
| Derived Column Name | This is a mandatory field to be filled when deriving a partition column. NOTE: Ensure no other columns in this table have the same name. |
| Extract Function | The extract function. If the parent column is a timestamp or date column, you can select extract function as one of the following: day num in month, month, year, year month, month day. If the parent column is other than timestamp or date, use the regular expression as the extract function. NOTE: This is a mandatory field to be selected when deriving a new column. |
| Data file pattern (regex) | If you select regular expression as the extract function, you must enter corresponding regular expression. NOTE: This field is a mandatory field if regex is used as an extract function. |
| Extract format | When using regex derived partition, this field specifies the values to extract from a data pattern to partition the data. NOTE: This field is mandatory if regex is used as an extract function. |
| Number of Secondary Partitions | The number of secondary partitions to run the MR jobs in parallel. The target data can be distributed among various partitions and each partitions in turn can have various secondary partitions. A table with no primary partition can also have secondary partitions. Secondary partition helps in parallelising the ingestion process. |
| Number of Reducers | The number of reducers for the ingestion map reduce job. Increasing the number of reducers helps reduce the ingestion duration. This will help in processing the MR jobs faster. This will be effective with the combination of partition key and number of secondary partitions. In any data processing using MR job, this will help in bringing the parallelism based on the data distribution across number of primary partitions and secondary partitions on Hadoop. |
| Generate History View | The option to create history view table (along with the current view table) in Hive, which contains the versions of incremental updates and deletes. |
| Number of Secondary Partitions to Merge in Parallel | The number of secondary partitions that can be merged in parallel for a table. |