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Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
6 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
3 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Add timestampPrecisionReporting option to resultset.getDBTimestamp and resultset.getTimestamp to get trailing 6 number places after the decimal as has been done with resultset.getString

In IDz DB2 for z/OS Connections, we return the result of 3 methods to show the timestamp in our tables.Two of the three entries lack the last zero.With the timestamp type data in the presentation of the result of the execution of a db2 query if a ...
19 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

When setting 'DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA' in non-ora DB, the resulting string length is different.

when it's going to setup "db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA"~ $ db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA$ db2stop force03/27/2023 18:05:52 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.$ db2start03/27/2023 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Change replace System-defined in db2 luw to consider NLS characters in search.

Wrong result when executing the replace function with certain characters in the codeset euc-kr DB. (It comes out fine for utf-8 DB, but not for euc-kr.) Case No : TS012082536 *L3 team comment* ##################################################### ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Better JDBC 4.3 support in the JDBC/JCC driver of Db2 11.5.5

As the knowledgecenter states in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.wn.doc/doc/c_ds_clients_drivers_11-5-5.html "JCC supports new APIs from JDBC 4.3 specification with this release. ... JDBC 4.3 specification...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration