Automated Continuous NetSuite SuiteAnalytics Replication to IBM DB2

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live NetSuite SuiteAnalytics data into your IBM DB2 instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure IBM DB2 as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate NetSuite SuiteAnalytics data to IBM DB2. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the IBM DB2 connector.
3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. Sync requires the db2jcc.jar driver to connect to your DB2 database. If you have not done so already, make sure to download the native DB2 JDBC driver from DB2 JDBC Driver Versions and Downloads web page.
4. Copy the JDBC driver into the lib directory.
   • Microsoft Windows: C:\Program Files\CData\CData Sync\lib
   • UNIX or Mac OS X: ~/CData/CData Sync/lib
5. To connect to IBM DB2, set the following connection properties:
   • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the IBM DB2 connection.
   • Server: Enter either the host name or the IP address of the server that hosts your IBM DB2 instance.
   • Port: Enter the port number of the server that hosts your instance of IBM DB2. The default port value is 50000.
   • Database: Set this to the database you want to read from and write to.
   • User: Set this to the database user.
   • Password: Set this to the user's password.

6. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to IBM DB2 and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load NetSuite SuiteAnalytics data into IBM DB2 and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the NetSuite SuiteAnalytics Connection

You can configure a connection to NetSuite SuiteAnalytics from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your NetSuite SuiteAnalytics account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (NetSuite SuiteAnalytics).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Prerequisites

   Before you can connect to NetSuite SuiteAnalytics, you must set up SuiteAnalytics Connect in your NetSuite account:

   1. Enable the Connect Service feature.

      1. Ensure that your Account Administrator has enabled your Account and Role with the Connect Service feature.

      2. Navigate to Setup > Company > Enable Features.

      3. Click the Analytics tab and check the SuiteAnalytics Connect box.

   2. Add the SuiteAnalytics Connect permission to an existing Role.

      1. Navigate to Setup > Users/Roles > User Management > Manage Roles.

      2. Click Customize next to the name of the role for which you would like to add the SuiteAnalytics Connect permission.

      3. Click the Setup tab under the Permissions tab.

      4. Add the SuiteAnalytics Connect permission.

      5. Click Add and Save.

   3. Verify the Suite Analytics Connect permissions.

      1. Find the Settings portlet on your home page and click Set Up SuiteAnalytics Connect.

      2. Click Your Configuration to view your service host and account ID information. These settings map directly to Server and Account ID connection properties.

   Add the NetSuite SuiteAnalytics Connector

   To enable Sync to use data from NetSuite SuiteAnalytics, you first must add the connector, as follows:

   1. Open the Connections page of the Sync dashboard.

   2. Click Add Connection to open the Select Connectors page.

   3. Click the Sources tab and locate the NetSuite SuiteAnalytics row.

   4. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. If the Configure Connection icon is not available, click the Download Connector icon to install the NetSuite SuiteAnalytics connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see the Connections section in the Help documentation.

   Authenticate to NetSuite SuiteAnalytics

   After you add the connector, you need to set the required properties.

   • Connection Name - Enter a connection name of your choice.

   • Server - Enter the value of Service Host you previously found.

   • Account Id - Enter the value of Account Id you previously found.

   • Role Id - Enter the Role ID you previously updated.

   • User - Enter the username that you use to authenticate to your NetSuite account.

   • Password - Enter the password associated with that account.

   
4. Click Connect to NetSuite SuiteAnalytics to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save & Test to save the changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of NetSuite SuiteAnalytics tables you wish to replicate into IBM DB2, and click Add Tasks again.

Customize Your Replication

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at specified intervals, ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your NetSuite SuiteAnalytics data to IBM DB2.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the NetSuite SuiteAnalytics table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

Free Trial & More Information

Now that you have seen how to replicate NetSuite SuiteAnalytics data into IBM DB2, visit our CData Sync page to explore more about CData Sync and download a free 30-day trial. Start consolidating your enterprise data today!

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