Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Odoo 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.
About Odoo Data Integration
Accessing and integrating live data from Odoo has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:
- Access live data from both Odoo API 8.0+ and Odoo.sh Cloud ERP.
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Extend the native Odoo features with intelligent handling of many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many data properties. CData's connectivity solutions also intelligently handle complex data properties within Odoo. In addition to columns with simple values like text and dates, there are also columns that contain multiple values on each row. The driver decodes these kinds of values differently, depending upon the type of column the value comes from:
- Many-to-one columns are references to a single row within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-one columns are represented as integers, whose value is the ID to which they refer in the other model.
- Many-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model. Within CData solutions, many-to-many columns are represented as text containing a comma-separated list of integers. Each value in that list is the ID of a row that is being referenced.
- One-to-many columns are references to many rows within another model - they are similar to many-to-many columns (comma-separated lists of integers), except that each row in the referenced model must belong to only one in the main model.
- Use SQL stored procedures to call server-side RFCs within Odoo.
Users frequently integrate Odoo with analytics tools such as Power BI and Qlik Sense, and leverage our tools to replicate Odoo data to databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Configure IBM DB2 as a Replication Destination
Using CData Sync, you can replicate Odoo data to IBM DB2. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
👁 Add a new connection.
- Select the Destinations tab and locate the IBM DB2 connector.
👁 Configure a Destination connection to IBM DB2.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
👁 Enter the connection details.
- 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.
👁 Add a label.
In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Odoo data into IBM DB2 and utilize it as a destination.
Configure the Odoo Connection
You can configure a connection to Odoo from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Odoo account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (Odoo).
- Configure the connection properties.
To connect, set the Url to a valid Odoo site, User and Password to the connection details of the user you are connecting with, and Database to the Odoo database.
👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
- Click Connect to Odoo to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- 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.
👁 Select Source and Destination connections for the 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 Odoo tables you wish to replicate into IBM DB2, and click Add Tasks again.
👁 Choose entire tables to replicate (Salesforce is shown).
Customize Your Replication
You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The
Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The
Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication with the help of SQL queries.
👁 Configure a replication Transform.
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.
👁 Schedule your job to run automatically.
Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Odoo data to IBM DB2.
Run the Replication Job
Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Odoo 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.
👁 Run the job.
Free Trial & More Information
Now that you have seen how to replicate Odoo 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!
As always, our world-class Support Team is ready to answer any questions you may have.
