Use the IBM® Bluemix® utility
command-line integration tool to configure your Liberty server to use the IBM Cloud dashDB® service.
Before you begin
Before you configure your
Liberty
server to use
IBM Cloud services, you must
create an account. See
Sign up for IBM Cloud
to create your
IBM Cloud account.
About this task
Configure your Liberty server to
use the dashDB service.
Procedure
- Log in using the bluemixUtility login command. After your initial login, you
do not have to complete this step again.
- Run the bluemixUtility marketplace command to list details about all the IBM Cloud services that can be used with the
command-line utility. See the following example:
Service: dashDB
Description: A flexible and powerful data warehouse for online analytics processing, or a highly reliable relational database for enterprise-level online transaction processing.
Documentation: https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/dashDB/index.html#dashDB
Plans: Entry, Enterprise256.4, Enterprise256.12, EnterpriseMPP.4, EnterpriseTransactional12.128.1400, EnterpriseTransactional2.8.500, Enterprise
- The dashDB service offers different service plans for
data warehousing and transactional processing. Use the IBM Cloud dashboard to create or request an
instance.
- Once you have a dashDB service instance verify that it has a service key. A service key contains credential information for the service. For example:
$ bluemixUtility showService myDashDB
Name: myDashDB
Type: dashDB
Plan: EnterpriseTransactional2.8.500
Description: A flexible and powerful data warehouse for online analytics processing, or a highly reliable relational database for enterprise-level online transaction processing.
Documentation: https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/#services/dashDB/index.html#dashDB
Service keys:
credential-1
If you do not see a service key that is listed use the
IBM Cloud dashboard or the
bluemixUtility createService command with the options
serviceType,
servicePlan, and
serviceName to
create one. If you use the
createService command, make sure to pass the service
type, plan name, and service name that matches the values from the output of the
showService command. For example:
$ bluemixUtility createService dashDB EnterpriseTransactional2.8.500 myDashDB
- Run the bluemixUtility import myDashDB command to import the configuration.
Accept the license terms and conditions of the necessary libraries that are needed to access the
service.
- Optional: Run the bluemixUtility listImports command to view the
service configurations that you imported.
The following IBM Bluemix service configurations have been imported:
myDashDB
- Run the bluemixUtility bind [options]
serverName
serviceName to bind the configuration to a Liberty server. Accept the license terms
and conditions, if you are prompted. See the following example and description of a service listed:
$ bluemixUtility bind defaultServer myDashDB
Checking if features required for the myDashDB service are installed.
All required features are installed.
The myDashDB is now bound to defaultServer server.
The default JNDI name for the dashDB database is
jdbc/serviceName. If your application uses a different JNDI name
to access the database instance, use the --vjndiName option to specify the JNDI
name. See the following example: $ bluemixUtility bind defaultServer myDashDB --vjndiName=jdbc/myDataSource
Results
You can now use dashDB services with your
Liberty server.