Thanks for the reply..... I made the change you suggested and the same results. I stripped everything back to the basics. I checked my classapath and there are no duplicate libraries. My maven pom has only the spring boot starter parent, spring data jpa, starter, start-test, and starter-logging
Here is the console output.. cleaned up...
2018-05-21 14:37:30.086 WARN 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : HikariPool-1 - idleTimeout is close to or more than maxLifetime, disabling it.
2018-05-21 14:37:30.086 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : HikariPool-1 - configuration:
2018-05-21 14:37:30.099 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : allowPoolSuspension.............false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.099 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : autoCommit......................false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.100 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : catalog.........................none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.108 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : connectionInitSql...............none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.116 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : connectionTestQuery.............none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.117 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : connectionTimeout...............30000
2018-05-21 14:37:30.118 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : dataSource......................none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.125 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : dataSourceClassName.............none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.126 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : dataSourceJNDI..................none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.133 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : dataSourceProperties............{password=<masked>}
2018-05-21 14:37:30.135 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : driverClassName................."com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver"
2018-05-21 14:37:30.142 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : healthCheckProperties...........{}
2018-05-21 14:37:30.144 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : healthCheckRegistry.............none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.146 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : idleTimeout.....................0
2018-05-21 14:37:30.151 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : initializationFailFast..........true
2018-05-21 14:37:30.152 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : initializationFailTimeout.......1
2018-05-21 14:37:30.152 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : isolateInternalQueries..........false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.157 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : jdbc4ConnectionTest.............false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.166 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : jdbcUrl.........................jdbc:db2://<hostname>:<port>/<database>
2018-05-21 14:37:30.168 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : leakDetectionThreshold..........0
2018-05-21 14:37:30.180 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : maxLifetime.....................300000
2018-05-21 14:37:30.198 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : maximumPoolSize.................5
2018-05-21 14:37:30.216 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : metricRegistry..................none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.227 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : metricsTrackerFactory...........none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.231 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : minimumIdle.....................5
2018-05-21 14:37:30.232 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : password........................<masked>
2018-05-21 14:37:30.232 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : poolName........................"HikariPool-1"
2018-05-21 14:37:30.239 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : readOnly........................false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.245 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : registerMbeans..................false
2018-05-21 14:37:30.254 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : scheduledExecutor...............none
2018-05-21 14:37:30.265 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : scheduledExecutorService........internal
2018-05-21 14:37:30.268 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : schema.........................."<SCHEMA>"
2018-05-21 14:37:30.269 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : threadFactory...................internal
2018-05-21 14:37:30.282 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : transactionIsolation............default
2018-05-21 14:37:30.296 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : username........................"<USERNAME>"
2018-05-21 14:37:30.301 DEBUG 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig : validationTimeout...............5000
2018-05-21 14:37:30.302 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource : HikariPool-1 - Starting...
2018-05-21 14:37:31.381 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource : HikariPool-1 - Start completed.
2018-05-21 14:37:31.844 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Building JPA container EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2018-05-21 14:37:31.890 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
name: default
...]
2018-05-21 14:37:32.020 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] org.hibernate.Version : HHH000412: Hibernate Core {5.2.17.Final}
2018-05-21 14:37:32.026 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment : HHH000205: Loaded properties from resource hibernate.properties: {hibernate.connection.username=<username>, hibernate.connection.password=****, hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect, hibernate.connection.url=jdbc:db2://<hostname>:<port>/<database>, hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer=false, hibernate.connection.driver_class=com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver}
2018-05-21 14:37:32.096 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.hibernate.annotations.common.Version : HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {5.0.1.Final}
2018-05-21 14:37:32.424 WARN 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.JdbcEnvironmentInitiator : HHH000342: Could not obtain connection to query metadata : null
2018-05-21 14:37:32.454 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.DB2Dialect
2018-05-21 14:37:32.494 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.h.e.j.e.i.LobCreatorBuilderImpl : HHH000422: Disabling contextual LOB creation as connection was null
2018-05-21 14:37:35.311 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.h.h.i.QueryTranslatorFactoryInitiator : HHH000397: Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
2018-05-21 14:37:35.732 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] j.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean : Initialized JPA EntityManagerFactory for persistence unit 'default'
2018-05-21 14:37:38.374 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.b.d.a.OptionalLiveReloadServer : LiveReload server is running on port 35729
2018-05-21 14:37:38.451 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter : Registering beans for JMX exposure on startup
2018-05-21 14:37:38.466 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter : Bean with name 'dataSource' has been autodetected for JMX exposure
2018-05-21 14:37:38.481 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] o.s.j.e.a.AnnotationMBeanExporter : Located MBean 'dataSource': registering with JMX server as MBean [com.zaxxer.hikari:name=dataSource,type=HikariDataSource]
2018-05-21 14:37:38.569 INFO 26964 --- [ restartedMain] c.i.g.persistence.GssEntityApplication : Started GssEntityApplication in 12.745 seconds (JVM running for 13.568)