Hello Guys,
I am into a weired situation. I am developing one application which needs to connect to DB2 on demand. Based on the user input, we execute a query on DB2 database. So all the developer's machines have System DSN for DB2 (I believe its an JDBC-ODBC). So during the development phase we used the local machines and using COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver we were able to connect to DB2.
Now we deployed our application to Oracle App Server which is a unix box (I found out that later). So obviously its going to fail the connection as Unix doesnt have ODBC-JDBC DataSource.
So I searched for JDBC drivers and found out that DataDirect is the one who connects to DB2 as well. So I tried that Driver on app server. I was hoping that it would work but now I got another error as below :
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[oias][DB2 JDBC Driver]Failed to access database MVSDB2T.[oias][DB2 JDBC Driver][DB2]Error occured with SQLCode -1334 with the following parameters: null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null
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So after digin into this error I found out that "SQL1334N The database server cannot be used to route a remote request to a second database server in this configuration.".
So I talked to our Mainframe ppl and found out that we are using a Gateway to connect to Mainframe. The actual Physical database is somewhere else which we dont have control over. So I wrote a question to DataDirect's Forums and one of the Developer/admin got back to me with the answer saying that DataDirect doesnt support connecting to remote databases through the DB2 Gateway.
Now I dont know how to handle this situation. I thought of creating EJBs but I am not sure how its goig to work.
Sorry guys for writing such a long post but I wanted you all to understand the situation and give me suggestions/solution for this.
Thanks in advance. Any kind of help would be appreciated.
