My IT department tried to set up a connection to IBM DB2 but could only get it to work through ODBC. This doesn't seem right. Also, the performance over ODBC is horrible. Trying to filter a multi-million row table takes forever (almost literally). Our DB2 database is on a mainframe (z/OS). Can anyone tell me what I should tell my IT department so that they can establish a proper connection to the IBM DB2 database? I assume that a proper connection exists (otherwise why would Microsoft list it as a valid connection option) and that such a proper connection would perform acceptably. My thought is that the ODBC route is a bad, although technically functional, approach.
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