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JDBC V2 connection properties

Create a JDBC V2 connection to access data from Aurora PostgreSQL or any database that supports the Type 4 JDBC driver.

Prerequisites

Before you create a JDBC V2 connection to read from or write to databases that support the JDBC Type 4 driver, complete the prerequisites.

Install the Type 4 JDBC driver

To read from or write to JDBC V2 objects, you need to install the Type 4 JDBC driver on the Secure Agent machine.
  1. 1Download the latest Type 4 JDBC driver version that your database supports from the third-party vendor site.
    2. If you want to use JDBC V2 Connector to connect to Aurora PostgreSQL, download the Aurora PostgreSQL driver. Informatica has certified Aurora PostgreSQL driver 42.2.6 for JDBC V2 Connector.
  2. 2Install the Type 4 JDBC driver for the database on the Secure Agent machine and perform the following tasks:
    1. aNavigate to the following directory on the Secure Agent machine:
      2. <Secure Agent installation directory>/ext/connectors/thirdparty/
  3. 3Restart the Secure Agent.
    4. If you update the driver on the Secure Agent machine while the mapping in advanced mode runs, you need to restart the Secure Agent.

Connect to JDBC V2

Let's configure the JDBC V2 connection properties to connect to JDBC-compliant databases.

Before you begin

Before you get started, you'll need to install the Type 4 JDBC driver on the Secure Agent machine to establish a JDBC V2 connection.
Check out Prerequisites to learn more about the configuration prerequisites.

Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
JDBC V2
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select a Secure Agent.
JDBC Driver Class Name
Name of the JDBC driver class.
For example, to connect to Aurora PostgreSQL, specify the following driver class name: org.postgresql.Driver
For more information about which driver class to use with specific databases, see the corresponding third-party vendor documentation.
Connection String
Connection string to connect to the database.
Use the following format to specify the connection string: jdbc:<subprotocol>:<subname>
For example, the connection string for the Aurora PostgreSQL database type is jdbc:postgresql://<host>:<port>[/dbname].
For more information about the connection string to use with specific drivers, see the corresponding third-party vendor documentation.
User Name
The user name to connect to the database.
Password
The password to connect to the database.

Advanced settings

The following table describes the advanced connection properties:
Property
Description
Database Type
The database type to which you want to connect.
Select one of the following database types:
  • - PostgreSQL. Connect to the Aurora PostgreSQL database hosted in the Amazon Web Services or the Microsoft Azure environment.
  • - Azure SQL Database. Connect to Azure SQL Database hosted in the Microsoft Azure environment.
  • - Others. Connect to any database that supports the Type 4 JDBC driver, such as Salesforce Data Cloud.
Default is Others.
Schema Name
The schema name used for the JDBC object.
If you don't specify the schema name, all the schemas available in the database are listed.
To read from or write to Oracle public synonyms, enter PUBLIC.
Connection Environment SQL
The SQL statement to set up the database environment when you connect to a PostgreSQL database. The database environment applies for the entire session that uses this connection.
For example, you can enter this statement to set the time zone:
SET timezone to 'America/New_York';
Additional Security Properties
Masks sensitive and confidential data of the connection string that you don't want to display in the session log.
Specify the part of the connection string that you want to mask.
When you create a connection, the string you enter in this field appends to the string that you specified in the Connection String field.
Enable Auto Commit
Specifies whether the driver supports connections to automatically commit data to the database when you run an SQL statement.
When disabled, the driver does not support connections to automatically commit data even if the auto-commit mode is enabled in the JDBC driver.
Default is disabled.
Support Mixed-Case Identifiers
Indicates whether the database supports case-sensitive identifiers.
When enabled, the Secure Agent encloses all identifiers within the character selected for the SQL Identifier Character property.
Default is disabled.
SQL Identifier Character
Type of character that the database uses to enclose delimited identifiers in SQL queries. The available characters depend on the database type.
Select None if the database uses regular identifiers. When the Secure Agent generates SQL queries, it does not place delimited characters around any identifiers.
Select a character from the list based on what delimiter the database uses for identifiers. When the Secure Agent generates SQL queries, it encloses delimited identifiers within this character.