Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to IBM DB2

Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites.

In IBM DB2, make sure you have:

• Noted your database username and password.

  Important

  As a best practice, provide Amazon Q with read-only database credentials.

• Copied your database host URL, port, and instance.

In your AWS account, make sure you have:

• Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

• Stored your IBM DB2 authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.

  Note

  If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.

For a list of things to consider while configuring your data source, see Data source connector configuration best practices.