Null Pointer Exception creating DB2 JDBC Connection --------------------------------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-2041 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-2041 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Bug Environment: Designer 8.3.1.Final-v20140122-1920-B21. Running in eclipse Kepler on Windows 7 with jdk1.7.0_45 Reporter: Jim Riley When trying to Make a JDBC connection to DB2 Database a Null Pointer Exception is encountered. The Ping to test the connection is successful. I tried connecting to a AIX DB2 instance and a Mainframe instance. The result was the same. The detailed messages is: Could not connect to New Generic JDBC. Error creating SQL Model Connection connection to New Generic JDBC. (Error: null) java.lang.NullPointerException OK The log file contains: !ENTRY org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity 4 -1 2014-02-06 10:18:14.869 !MESSAGE Could not connect to DMS Net Driver JDBC. !SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity 4 -1 2014-02-06 10:18:14.869 !MESSAGE Error creating SQL Model Connection connection to DMS Net Driver JDBC. (Error: null) !STACK 0 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.util.DatabaseProviderHelper.getCatalogDatabase(DatabaseProviderHelper.java:37) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.util.DatabaseProviderHelper.setDatabase(DatabaseProviderHelper.java:47) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.connection.ConnectionInfoImpl.initializeJDBCConnection(ConnectionInfoImpl.java:718) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.connection.ConnectionInfoImpl.<init>(ConnectionInfoImpl.java:690) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.connection.ConnectionFactory.createConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:38) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.core.SQMConnectionFactory.createConnection(SQMConnectionFactory.java:45) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.sqm.internal.core.connection.ConnectionFactory.createConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:59) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.internal.ConnectionFactoryAdapterProvider.createConnection(ConnectionFactoryAdapterProvider.java:114) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.internal.ManagedConnection.createConnection(ManagedConnection.java:163) at org.eclipse.datatools.connectivity.internal.CreateConnectionJob.run(CreateConnectionJob.java:56) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:53) !SUBENTRY 1 unknown 0 0 2014-02-06 10:18:14.869