Amazon Q Business is no longer open to new customers. For capabilities similar to Q Business, explore Amazon Quick. [Learn more](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/qbusiness-availability-change.html).

# IBM DB2 connector overview
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The following table gives an overview of the IBM DB2 connector and its supported features.




- ****Security****
  - **Feature:** Authentication type / **Support:** Basic
  - **Feature:** Authentication credentials / **Support:** +  Username of database user <br />+  Password of database user 
  - **Feature:** [Access Control List (ACL)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-authorization) crawling / **Support:** Yes. For more information, see [ACL crawling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/ibm-db2-user-management.html).
  - **Feature:** Driver version / **Support:** DB2 – 11.5.7.0
  - **Feature:** Data source version / **Support:** 11.5.7
  - **Feature:** [Identity crawling](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-identity-crawler) / **Support:** No
  - **Feature:** [VPC](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-vpc) / **Support:** Yes

- ****Crawl features****
  - **Feature:** Custom metadata / **Support:** Yes
  - **Feature:** Entities / **Support:** Yes. The following entities are supported: +  Document  Each database row is considered an individual searchable Amazon Q document.  See [What is a document?](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-doc-crawl.html) for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
  - **Feature:** [Field mappings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-field-mappings) / **Support:** Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see [Field mappings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/ibm-db2-field-mappings).
  - **Feature:** [Sync mode](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-sync-mode) / **Support:** Supports full and incremental sync.
  - **Feature:** [File types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/doc-types.html) / **Support:** Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.



## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon Q. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query amazonq` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).