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I am trying to connect to an AS400 system and retrieve data from DB2 tables using the
DB2 UDB API stage. After going through the posts in this forum, I have concluded that I need to do the following. I would appreciate it if anybody could correct/help me in this regard:

1)I need DB2 Connect installed on the Datastage server.
a) What is DB2 Connect? I am assuming that they are DB2 drivers for
Datastage. I am running Datastage on a Linux box.
b) Where can I install it from?

2)I need to change my dsenv file to add the path of where the DB2 Connect is installed. Exactly what is the line that I add in the dsenv file?

3)Configure the uvodbc.config file. There should be 2 entries for Collection and Location. What should they look like?

4)Catalog TCP/IP node? What is "Cataloging TCP/IP node"? How do I do it?

5)Catalog remote database? What is "Cataloging remote database"? How do I do it?

6)Catalog DCS database? What is "Cataloging DCS database"? How do I do it?

7)"Bind packages". What is "binding a package"? What package are we talking about?

8)Add an entry to the .odbc.ini file? What is the entry going to be? Do I add an entry for a specific project?

Thanks to anyone who responds.

DB2 Connect is DB2 client software, not part of DataStage.

The line in dsenv will depend on where you have installed DB2 Connect; essentially you need its bin directory in your PATH and its lib32 directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (though after $APT_ORCHHOME/lib).

Questions 4 through 7 relate to setting up the DB2 client. Ask your DBA.

.odbc.ini is only relevant if you are going to use ODBC as your protocol.