Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server

Chapter 4 – Working with databases 71
1. On the left panel under the Services folder, click on Database Pools. Then click
Using the Geronimo database pool wizard to start to create a DB2 database pool.
This is illustrated in Figure 4.6 below.
Figure 4.6 - Creating a new database pool
2. Let's input jdbc/demods as the database pool name (where demods is short for
demo dataset); and for the database type dropdown list, choose DB2 XA as
shown in Figure 4.7. Then click Next.
Figure 4.7 - Creating a new database pool - Step 1
3. On the next page, specify the driver JAR, database name, user name, password,
and server name as illustrated in Figure 4.8 and Figure 4.9. For the rest of the
fields, accept the defaults.