Connect Your Charts and Dashboards to a IBM DB2 Database

Graph data from your IBM DB2 database with Chart Studio and Falcon.

Step 1

Download and Install Falcon

If you haven't downloaded and installed Falcon yet, please follow the instructions for either personal setup or company on-premise.

Step 2

Launch and Connect

After launching Falcon, select IBM DB2 by clicking on its icon.

Connect

Enter your username, password, database server name (host) and its port number and click CONNECT.

Credentials

Have no database? Try it out with our sample IBM DB2 credentials. Simply, click Show Sample Credentials, copy, paste and click CONNECT!

Sample Credentials

Once connection is established, your connection credentials will be saved and greyed out to avoid unintentional changes. If you wish to modify your connection, click on Edit Credentials.

Edit Credentials

Step 3

Query

For a tutorial on the query tab, which features schema preview, the ability execute sql queries, perform inline data visualization, preview tables and export CSV files, see Query From Falcon.

Step 4

Query IBM DB2 From Plot.ly

If you want to unlock the full power of Plotly's Chart Studio, you can click the PLOT.LY tab and QUERY [DATABASE] FROM PLOT.LY. To learn more about this feature, naviagte to the Query From Plot.ly tutorial.

Step 5

Plotting in Chart Studio

If you opted to run your queries from plot.ly and want to make a styled and interactive plot in the Chart Studio. Check out our Chart Studio tutorials