diff --git a/external/docker-integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2IntegrationSuite.scala b/external/docker-integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2IntegrationSuite.scala
index 3da34b1b382d..f5930bc281e8 100644
--- a/external/docker-integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2IntegrationSuite.scala
+++ b/external/docker-integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2IntegrationSuite.scala
@@ -21,10 +21,13 @@ import java.math.BigDecimal
 import java.sql.{Connection, Date, Timestamp}
 import java.util.Properties
 
-import org.scalatest._
+import org.scalatest.Ignore
 
+import org.apache.spark.sql.Row
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{BooleanType, ByteType, ShortType, StructType}
 import org.apache.spark.tags.DockerTest
 
+
 @DockerTest
 @Ignore // AMPLab Jenkins needs to be updated before shared memory works on docker
 class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
@@ -47,19 +50,22 @@ class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
     conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (17,'dave')").executeUpdate()
 
     conn.prepareStatement("CREATE TABLE numbers ( small SMALLINT, med INTEGER, big BIGINT, "
-      + "deci DECIMAL(31,20), flt FLOAT, dbl DOUBLE)").executeUpdate()
+      + "deci DECIMAL(31,20), flt FLOAT, dbl DOUBLE, real REAL, "
+      + "decflt DECFLOAT, decflt16 DECFLOAT(16), decflt34 DECFLOAT(34))").executeUpdate()
     conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO numbers VALUES (17, 77777, 922337203685477580, "
-      + "123456745.56789012345000000000, 42.75, 5.4E-70)").executeUpdate()
+      + "123456745.56789012345000000000, 42.75, 5.4E-70, "
+      + "3.4028234663852886e+38, 4.2999, DECFLOAT('9.999999999999999E19', 16), "
+      + "DECFLOAT('1234567891234567.123456789123456789', 34))").executeUpdate()
 
     conn.prepareStatement("CREATE TABLE dates (d DATE, t TIME, ts TIMESTAMP )").executeUpdate()
     conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO dates VALUES ('1991-11-09', '13:31:24', "
       + "'2009-02-13 23:31:30')").executeUpdate()
 
     // TODO: Test locale conversion for strings.
-    conn.prepareStatement("CREATE TABLE strings (a CHAR(10), b VARCHAR(10), c CLOB, d BLOB)")
-      .executeUpdate()
-    conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO strings VALUES ('the', 'quick', 'brown', BLOB('fox'))")
+    conn.prepareStatement("CREATE TABLE strings (a CHAR(10), b VARCHAR(10), c CLOB, d BLOB, e XML)")
       .executeUpdate()
+    conn.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO strings VALUES ('the', 'quick', 'brown', BLOB('fox'),"
+      + "'<cinfo cid=\"10\"><name>Kathy</name></cinfo>')").executeUpdate()
   }
 
   test("Basic test") {
@@ -77,13 +83,17 @@ class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
     val rows = df.collect()
     assert(rows.length == 1)
     val types = rows(0).toSeq.map(x => x.getClass.toString)
-    assert(types.length == 6)
+    assert(types.length == 10)
     assert(types(0).equals("class java.lang.Integer"))
     assert(types(1).equals("class java.lang.Integer"))
     assert(types(2).equals("class java.lang.Long"))
     assert(types(3).equals("class java.math.BigDecimal"))
     assert(types(4).equals("class java.lang.Double"))
     assert(types(5).equals("class java.lang.Double"))
+    assert(types(6).equals("class java.lang.Float"))
+    assert(types(7).equals("class java.math.BigDecimal"))
+    assert(types(8).equals("class java.math.BigDecimal"))
+    assert(types(9).equals("class java.math.BigDecimal"))
     assert(rows(0).getInt(0) == 17)
     assert(rows(0).getInt(1) == 77777)
     assert(rows(0).getLong(2) == 922337203685477580L)
@@ -91,6 +101,10 @@ class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
     assert(rows(0).getAs[BigDecimal](3).equals(bd))
     assert(rows(0).getDouble(4) == 42.75)
     assert(rows(0).getDouble(5) == 5.4E-70)
+    assert(rows(0).getFloat(6) == 3.4028234663852886e+38)
+    assert(rows(0).getDecimal(7) == new BigDecimal("4.299900000000000000"))
+    assert(rows(0).getDecimal(8) == new BigDecimal("99999999999999990000.000000000000000000"))
+    assert(rows(0).getDecimal(9) == new BigDecimal("1234567891234567.123456789123456789"))
   }
 
   test("Date types") {
@@ -112,7 +126,7 @@ class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
     val rows = df.collect()
     assert(rows.length == 1)
     val types = rows(0).toSeq.map(x => x.getClass.toString)
-    assert(types.length == 4)
+    assert(types.length == 5)
     assert(types(0).equals("class java.lang.String"))
     assert(types(1).equals("class java.lang.String"))
     assert(types(2).equals("class java.lang.String"))
@@ -121,14 +135,27 @@ class DB2IntegrationSuite extends DockerJDBCIntegrationSuite {
     assert(rows(0).getString(1).equals("quick"))
     assert(rows(0).getString(2).equals("brown"))
     assert(java.util.Arrays.equals(rows(0).getAs[Array[Byte]](3), Array[Byte](102, 111, 120)))
+    assert(rows(0).getString(4).equals("""<cinfo cid="10"><name>Kathy</name></cinfo>"""))
   }
 
   test("Basic write test") {
-    // val df1 = sqlContext.read.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "numbers", new Properties)
+    // cast decflt column with precision value of 38 to DB2 max decimal precision value of 31.
+    val df1 = sqlContext.read.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "numbers", new Properties)
+      .selectExpr("small", "med", "big", "deci", "flt", "dbl", "real",
+      "cast(decflt as decimal(31, 5)) as decflt")
     val df2 = sqlContext.read.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "dates", new Properties)
     val df3 = sqlContext.read.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "strings", new Properties)
-    // df1.write.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "numberscopy", new Properties)
+    df1.write.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "numberscopy", new Properties)
     df2.write.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "datescopy", new Properties)
     df3.write.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "stringscopy", new Properties)
+    // spark types that does not have exact matching db2 table types.
+    val df4 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(
+      sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(Row("1".toShort, "20".toByte, true))),
+      new StructType().add("c1", ShortType).add("b", ByteType).add("c3", BooleanType))
+    df4.write.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "otherscopy", new Properties)
+    val rows = sqlContext.read.jdbc(jdbcUrl, "otherscopy", new Properties).collect()
+    assert(rows(0).getInt(0) == 1)
+    assert(rows(0).getInt(1) == 20)
+    assert(rows(0).getString(2) == "1")
   }
 }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2Dialect.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2Dialect.scala
index 190463df0d92..d160ad82888a 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2Dialect.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/DB2Dialect.scala
@@ -17,15 +17,34 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc
 
-import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{BooleanType, DataType, StringType}
+import java.sql.Types
+
+import org.apache.spark.sql.types._
 
 private object DB2Dialect extends JdbcDialect {
 
   override def canHandle(url: String): Boolean = url.startsWith("jdbc:db2")
 
+  override def getCatalystType(
+      sqlType: Int,
+      typeName: String,
+      size: Int,
+      md: MetadataBuilder): Option[DataType] = sqlType match {
+    case Types.REAL => Option(FloatType)
+    case Types.OTHER =>
+      typeName match {
+        case "DECFLOAT" => Option(DecimalType(38, 18))
+        case "XML" => Option(StringType)
+        case t if (t.startsWith("TIMESTAMP")) => Option(TimestampType) // TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE
+        case _ => None
+      }
+    case _ => None
+  }
+
   override def getJDBCType(dt: DataType): Option[JdbcType] = dt match {
     case StringType => Option(JdbcType("CLOB", java.sql.Types.CLOB))
     case BooleanType => Option(JdbcType("CHAR(1)", java.sql.Types.CHAR))
+    case ShortType | ByteType => Some(JdbcType("SMALLINT", java.sql.Types.SMALLINT))
     case _ => None
   }
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JDBCSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JDBCSuite.scala
index 70bee929b31d..d1daf860fdff 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JDBCSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JDBCSuite.scala
@@ -713,6 +713,15 @@ class JDBCSuite extends SparkFunSuite
     val db2Dialect = JdbcDialects.get("jdbc:db2://127.0.0.1/db")
     assert(db2Dialect.getJDBCType(StringType).map(_.databaseTypeDefinition).get == "CLOB")
     assert(db2Dialect.getJDBCType(BooleanType).map(_.databaseTypeDefinition).get == "CHAR(1)")
+    assert(db2Dialect.getJDBCType(ShortType).map(_.databaseTypeDefinition).get == "SMALLINT")
+    assert(db2Dialect.getJDBCType(ByteType).map(_.databaseTypeDefinition).get == "SMALLINT")
+    // test db2 dialect mappings on read
+    assert(db2Dialect.getCatalystType(java.sql.Types.REAL, "REAL", 1, null) == Option(FloatType))
+    assert(db2Dialect.getCatalystType(java.sql.Types.OTHER, "DECFLOAT", 1, null) ==
+      Option(DecimalType(38, 18)))
+    assert(db2Dialect.getCatalystType(java.sql.Types.OTHER, "XML", 1, null) == Option(StringType))
+    assert(db2Dialect.getCatalystType(java.sql.Types.OTHER, "TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE", 1, null) ==
+      Option(TimestampType))
   }
 
   test("PostgresDialect type mapping") {