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Hibob to IBM Db2 integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Hibob and IBM Db2 in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Hibob and IBM Db2

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: IBM Db2 and Hibob share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Hibob is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. IBM Db2 is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment in Hibob need to exist as queryable Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Sequences in IBM Db2 before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Sequences in IBM Db2 with Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment in Hibob field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Hibob typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Sync SaaS data into Db2 tables that existing enterprise applications and reports already consume.
  • 02 Replicate Db2 tables into a cloud warehouse continuously instead of nightly batch extracts.
  • 03 Two-way sync People (employee) profiles and Work records with a Postgres database so internal apps and directories read profiles in SQL while HR corrections flow back into Bob.
  • 04 Auto-provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP, ticketing tool, or app database when Bob Lifecycle events fire employee joined or terminated.

Common sync patterns

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Hibob land as queryable Views, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Sequences in IBM Db2, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

Reporting and analytics on current data

Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment replicate into IBM Db2 where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

What you can sync between Hibob and IBM Db2

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Hibob objects IBM Db2 objects How this pairing syncs
Employment Historical table of job terms, contract, and working pattern under /people/{id}/employment; full CRUD, entries keyed by effectiveDate. Databases The connection target; each database holds the schemas a sync addresses. Employment is specific to Hibob and Databases to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Work Reporting line, department, site, and title under /people/{id}/work; drives the org chart and is synced two-way to directories. Schemas Namespaces separating synced data from application and system objects. Work is specific to Hibob and Schemas to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Salaries Compensation history at /people/{id}/salaries; full CRUD but gated behind the Payroll permission on the service user. Tables Primary read/write target for syncing rows with SaaS systems or other databases. Salaries is specific to Hibob and Tables to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Time off Absence requests and who's-out data via /timeoff/employees/{id}/requests and /timeoff/whosout; submit new requests and read balances. Views Read-only projections often used to expose curated slices to a sync. Time off is specific to Hibob and Views to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Lifecycle Hire, termination, and leave status changes at /people/{id}/lifecycle; read-only and the source of lifecycle webhook events. Indexes Support fast key lookups on sync match columns. Lifecycle is specific to Hibob and Indexes to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Documents Employee documents accessed under the Docs API; gated behind the Documents permission granted per service user. Stored Procedures Existing business logic sometimes invoked as part of write paths. Documents is specific to Hibob and Stored Procedures to IBM Db2 — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Hibob and IBM Db2

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Hibob IBM Db2 Sub-second propagation

DetectionHibob notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to IBM Db2 as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

IBM Db2 Hibob Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in IBM Db2 are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC through IBM's replication tooling where licensed.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Hibob through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Hibob: Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
  • IBM Db2: No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by instance resources and workload management settings.
What ships with Hibob ⇄ IBM Db2

Connect Hibob and IBM Db2 for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Hibob–IBM Db2 connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Hibob or IBM Db2 instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Hibob or IBM Db2 data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Hibob or IBM Db2 record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Hibob ⇄ IBM Db2 sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Hibob and IBM Db2.

How the Hibob and IBM Db2 connectors work

Hibob

Integration surface
REST API (the Bob API)
Authentication
Service User credentials over HTTP Basic auth (Base64-encoded serviceUserId:serviceUserToken); permissions granted per data category (People, Payroll, Documents) in Bob admin
Change detection
Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events; the employee.updated payload flags which fields changed and Bob recommends an API call for the full record. There is no CDC stream, and deleting a table entry fires no webhook (Bob has no table-entry deletion event).
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
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IBM Db2

Integration surface
SQL via JDBC/ODBC/CLI drivers; optional REST endpoints in some editions
Authentication
Database credentials, typically backed by OS or LDAP authentication
Change detection
Log-based CDC through IBM's replication tooling where licensed; otherwise polling on timestamp or audit columns
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by instance resources and workload management settings
How it works

How to connect Hibob to IBM Db2 — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Hibob and IBM Db2 with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Hibob connected
    IBM Db2 connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Hibob and IBM Db2 objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Hibob ⇄ IBM Db2
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Hibob IBM Db2
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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