Use the New Connection wizard or pages that are embedded in other
wizards to create a JDBC connection to a database.
Database connections are created automatically in the Data Source Explorer
view when DB2® aliases
have been configured. You can modify the
behavior of these connections in the Preferences window.
You can create a generic JDBC connection to any database, by selecting Generic
JDBC from the list of database managers on the Connection Parameters
page and filling in the connection details.
The following restrictions apply to database connections in the workbench.
- The New Connection wizard and the pages that are embedded in other wizards
do not create connections that can be used at run time.
- If you create a connection to a database and that connection is cancelled
in some way from outside this product (for example, in DB2 by using the force applications
all command), the workbench cannot detect that the connection has
been dropped.