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Application Development

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MySQL Listener

So I know there is a Mongo listener so that you can speak mongo to DB2. I also know DB2 understands the MySQL dialect; there should be a listener so that applications can connect to it, the app thinks its mysql, but the back end is db2.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQL WITH clause to work with only SELECT unlike other flavors of SQL like T-SQL which operates other DML operations. Just like how WITH simplif...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade Struts 2.5.26 that is packaged as part of Rational Developer for i

IBM RDI 9.6.0.11 includes struts2-core-2.5.26.jar in the Webcontent > WebINF > lib folder when a new Webfacing project is created in RDI. This version of struts2 jar is vulnerable to a security vulnerability as per Whitesource, with id CVE-2...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Future consideration

TRY_CAST for DB2 LUW (CAST without error)

"New" scalar-function TRY_CASTReturns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

two-factor authentication

remove the two-factor authentication from this site.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

use of SET CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY for ONLINECHECK in db2sqljcustomize command

The SQLJ Profile Customizer command db2sqljcustomize (described in the DB2 11 for z/OS Application Programming Guide and Reference for Java) with the options -onlinecheck YES and -genDBRM is used to create a DB2 z/OS DBRM for a SQLJ Java program. ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Planned for future release

Update APPLNAME from properties and other ways

The application name in many environments is limited to db2jcc_application and db2bp, just because the development of the application did not take into account this. However, it will be great to change the application via properties file and/or s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration