Encrypting network traffic
It is a best practice to encrypt network traffic between the Looker application and your database. Consider one of the options that are described on the Enabling secure database access documentation page.
Supported JDBC parameters
For IBM DB2 on AS400, Looker supports the following JDBC parameters in the Additional JDBC parameters field for the connection. See the documentation for your database for information on these parameters.
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access -
auto commit -
batch style -
block size -
blocking enabled -
commit hold -
concurrent access resolution -
cursor hold -
cursor sensitivity -
data truncation -
date format -
date separator -
decfloat rounding mode -
decimal separator -
direct map -
errors -
libraries -
lob threshold -
maximum blocked input rows -
naming -
password -
user
Feature support
For Looker to support some features, your database dialect must also support them.
IBM DB2 for AS400 and System i supports the following features as of Looker 23.12:
| Feature | Supported? |
|---|---|
| Support Level | Integration |
| Looker (Google Cloud core) | |
| Symmetric Aggregates | |
| Derived Tables | |
| Persistent SQL Derived Tables | |
| Persistent Native Derived Tables | |
| Stable Views | |
| Query Killing | |
| SQL-based Pivots | |
| Timezones | |
| SSL | |
| Subtotals | |
| JDBC Additional Params | |
| Case Sensitive | |
| Location Type | |
| List Type | |
| Percentile | |
| Distinct Percentile | |
| SQL Runner Show Processes | |
| SQL Runner Describe Table | |
| SQL Runner Show Indexes | |
| SQL Runner Select 10 | |
| SQL Runner Count | |
| SQL Explain | |
| Oauth Credentials | |
| Context Comments | |
| Connection Pooling | |
| HLL Sketches | |
| Aggregate Awareness | |
| Incremental PDTs | |
| Milliseconds | |
| Microseconds | |
| Materialized Views | |
| Approximate Count Distinct |
