As an ArcGIS Server administrator or a publisher in your organization, you have the option to register your on-premises data stores and cloud stores. In doing so, you are registering data folders, databases, and geodatabases with the ArcGIS Server site so that services you publish can reference the data in those folders, databases, and geodatabases. Data registration provides ArcGIS Server a list of locations to access. Data registration also helps ArcGIS Server adjust data paths when publishing across machines.
The following sections describe how to prepare your ArcGIS client to connect to a Db2 database (whether the database contains a geodatabase or not) and register the database with ArcGIS Server. This workflow is only supported for Db2 on Linux, Unix, or Windows machines.
Install Db2 client software
Install the Db2 client on all ArcGIS machines that need to connect to a Db2 database. You can obtain Db2 client files from IBM or from My Esri. Follow the instructions provided with the Db2 client software to install it.
If your ArcGIS client is installed on a machine with a 64-bit operating system, run the 64-bit Db2 client installation; it installs both the 32- and 64-bit clients, allowing you to connect from both the 32-bit ArcMap and 64-bit ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Pro software. If you have ArcMap installed on a 32-bit operating system, run the 32-bit Db2 client installation.
You can catalog a database after you install the Db2 client software, which sets up a data source name that you can specify when you connect to the database.
If you choose not to catalog a database, you must specify a specific connection string to connect to a Db2 database as shown in Connect to Db2.
Grant privileges
The login used to connect to the database must have specific privileges granted to it. For logins that will only publish read-only services, grant the privileges necessary for a data viewer as described in Privileges for geodatabases in Db2. For logins that will publish editable feature services, grant the privileges necessary for a data editor. If you will be registering the geodatabase as a managed database, grant the privileges necessary for a data creator.
If your connection to Db2 uses operating system authentication, be sure to grant the appropriate privileges to the ArcGIS Server account.
Connect to Db2
You'll need the following information to register a Db2 database with an ArcGIS Server site:
- The type of database management system to which you are connecting, in this case, DB2
- Either the cataloged database name or the connection string used for DSNless connections
The DSNless connection string is in the form HostName=<host>;Port=<port number>;Database=<database name>;. See Database connections in ArcMap for more information and an example.
- The type of authentication to be used: database or operating system
Although all logins to Db2 are domain or local operating system accounts (domain accounts are recommended), you can specify database authentication for your connection from ArcGIS and Db2 will validate your connection using the login and password you provide in the database connection file. To use with ArcGIS Server, you must save the user information with the connection file.
If you choose to use operating system authentication instead, be sure your Db2 server can authenticate the ArcGIS Server account.
Legacy:
Beginning with ArcGIS 10.3 geodatabases, you cannot use an ArcSDE service to connect to enterprise geodatabases. To connect to a 10.2.2 or earlier release enterprise geodatabase using an ArcSDE service, create an .sde file using the Create ArcSDE Connection File geoprocessing tool or a Python script, and import this connection when you register the geodatabase with ArcGIS Server.
Register with ArcGIS Server
You can register the database from ArcGIS Server Manager or the Catalog tree in ArcMap. See the following topics for an explanation of registration options and how to register the database: