The JPA 2.0 Provider Hibernate is throwing exception while preparing configuration for entity manager factory, I am using DB2 v9.5 database and DB2 v9.5 JDBC type 2 driver .
java.sql.SQLException: [IBM][JDBC Driver] CLI0626E getDatabaseMajorVersion is not supported in this version of DB2 JDBC 2.0 driver. at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.SQLExceptionGenerator.throwNotSupportedByDB2(Unknown Source) at COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2DatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseMajorVersion(Unknown Source) at org.hibernate.cfg.SettingsFactory.buildSettings(SettingsFactory.java:117) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettingsInternal(Configuration.java:2833) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSettings(Configuration.java:2829) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1840) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:902) at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:57) at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:48) at javax.persistence.Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(Persistence.java:32)
From looking at the code: there is an undocumented hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults property, setting it to false may help if you can't change JDBC driver:
<property name = "hibernate.temp.use_jdbc_metadata_defaults" value = "false" />
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4593136/jpa-2-0-provider-hibernate-3-6-for-db2-v9-5-type-2-driver-is-throwing-exception