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Urid1969
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9 years ago
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Cannot connect to AS400 via IBM DB2 database

Hello friends Keep getting error while trying to connect to AS400 
Need Help
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Hi Urid1969,

    Firstly, please check the IBM AS400 server status and port status as per the below steps.

      a. Verify that if the IBM server is up and running following the troubleshoot steps in this article.
      b. Check the port status by using “netstat” in your IBM server and verify the port is in state Listen.

    Secondly, choose each driver in the following screenshot when connecting to IBM database and check if it is successful. When you choose IBM, please ensure that you have IBM DB2 Data Server Driver installed on your computer (minimum requirement is the IBM Data Server Driver Package (DS Driver)). Select the driver that matches your Power BI Desktop installation (32-bit or 64-bit).


    Thirdly, check if you are able to connect to IBM AS400 database from other application such as Excel.

    Thanks,
    Lydia Zhang

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

AndyRhodes 

 

Thank you. It worked for me as well. Just a curious ask:- is 446 a default port number so that anyone can use? Since, I tried with server port numbers but they didn't work. Why I dont know.

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Jeick
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Anonymous 

446 is simply the default DRDA port. DB2 for DB2/400 typically use the DRDA standard port number, 446, whereas DB2/LUW typically uses 50000 as the port number. Refer to IBM DB2 Admins and Installation guides changing these port numbers for the DRDA Service.

 

If this port works for you everything should be fine.