In a recent discussion, the question came up concern which Infosphere Datastage connectors and/or stages are supported by IBM for dashDB.  So, it seems appropriate to share the insight gained from the question being answered.

What Datastage Connectors and/or stages are Supported for dashDB

You have three choices as to connectors, which may best meet you your needs based on the nature of your environment and the configuration chooses which have been applied:

1. The DB2 Connector Stage
2. The JDBC Connector stage
3. The ODBC Stage

Related References

Connecting to IBM dashDB

InfoSphere Information Server, InfoSphere Information Server 11.5.0, Information Server on Cloud offerings, Connecting to other systems, Connecting to IBM dashDB

• https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.ds.cloud.doc/topics/t_connecting_ds_cloud_to_dashDB.html

DB2 connector

InfoSphere Information Server, InfoSphere Information Server 11.5.0, Connecting to data sources, Databases, IBM DB2 databases, DB2 connector

• https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.conn.db2db.usage.doc/topics/db2_connector_top_of_nav.html

ODBC stage

InfoSphere Information Server, InfoSphere Information Server 11.5.0, Connecting to data sources, Older stages for connectivity, ODBC stage

• https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.conn.odbc.stages.doc/topics/c_codbccon_ss_ODBC_Stages.html

JDBC data sources

InfoSphere Information Server, InfoSphere Information Server 11.5.0, Connecting to data sources, Multiple data sources, JDBC data sources

• https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.conn.jdbc.usage.doc/topics/jdbc_overview.html