This article shows you how to configure a DB2 datasource in Apache Geronimo v1.0. Normally you would just use the Geronimo Administration Console and the creation pool wizard for this task but that method allows you to specify only ONE driver jar file. In the case of DB2 you would have multiple files, one for the driver and two additional files for the license.

This article focuses on those tasks for manually adding the additional jar files to the datasource configuration.

Add DB2 to the repository

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For this particular case DB2 v8.1.8.806 was used. Failing to rename these files will cause the server to throw an exception.

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Create a template deployment plan

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Once you saved this deployment plan you can click on Cancel at the bottom left corner of the Database Pool portlet.

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Create the DB2 datasource deployment plan

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If you go back to the Database Pools portlet you should see the DB2_Test datasource listed in the portlet.

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