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IBM DB2 to MariaDB Migration

SQLines provides services and open-source tools to help you transfer data, convert database schema (DDL), views, stored procedures, functions, triggers, queries and SQL scripts from IBM DB2 to MariaDB.

We also help convert embedded SQL statements in C/C++ (ODBC, ESQL/C), C#, Java, PowerBuilder, VB/VB.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, Perl, PHP, Python, Linux shell and other applications. SQLines can also assist you to convert COBOL stored procedures and programs to MariaDB procedural language or Java.

Databases:

  • IBM DB2 for LUW, z/OS and OS/400 11.x, 10.x, 9.x, 8.x and 7.x
  • MariaDB 10.x

DB2 to MariaDB Migration Tools

SQLines tools to help you migrate from IBM DB2 to MariaDB:

  • SQLines Data - Data Transfer, Schema Migration and Validation Tool
  • SQLines SQL Converter - SQL Scripts Conversion Tool

DB2 to MariaDB Migration Reference

Data Types

Binary data types:

DB2 MariaDB
1 VARCHAR(n) FOR BIT DATA Variable-length binary string, 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 32672 VARBINARY(n) n ⇐ 65535

Numeric data types:

DB2 MariaDB
1 DECFLOAT(16 | 34) IEEE decimal floating-point number DOUBLE

Data and time data types:

DB2 MariaDB
1 TIMESTAMP(p) Date and time with fraction, 0 ⇐ p ⇐ 12 , default 6 DATETIME(p) p ⇐ 6

Large objects data types:

DB2 MariaDB
1 BLOB(n) Binary large object, 1 ⇐ n ⇐ 2G LONGBLOB