1) It requires me to buddy up to my dba for heightened authority to run the bind20 for Data Direct, whereas DB2Connect has already taken care of the package creation/binding. It's always fun nowadays since SOX to ask for dba-like authority...
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2) My DB2Connect admin already has catalogued all known DB2 instances, so there's no need of me having to administer a different set of DSN's - I just point to the logical name and the connection information is taken care of for me.
3) DB2Connect is highly available, and supports automatic failover if an LPAR is down, whereas the Data Direct drivers won't do this.
Any thoughts?