The workbench provides wizards that make it easy for you
to connect to databases and to display the status of your connections.
The New Connection wizard creates a connection to a database in the
Data Source Explorer view. For the purposes of this tutorial you connect
to the DB2® SAMPLE database.
To create a connection to the DB2 SAMPLE
database:
- In the Data Source Explorer view, right-click the Database
Connections folder and select . The
New Connection wizard opens.
- Clear the Use default naming convention check
box.
- In the Connection Name field, type SAMPLEXMLtutorial.
- In the Local box, select DB2
for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
- Specify the user ID and password that you want to connect
with, and click Finish.
The new connection is displayed in the Data Source Explorer.
You can browse the objects that are contained in the database, and
view their properties by opening the Properties view.