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.