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Enable federation between db2 luw to SQLMI (AZURE)

Some of our Sybase data sources moved to SQLMI (AZURE) when we setup federation from db2luw to SQLMI (similar to sql server) its not working
2 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Change stored procedure SYSPROC.NNSTAT to use method 2 for ODBC based nicknames

The SYSPROC.NNSTAT stored procedure uses method 1 for automatic, asynchronous statistics collection for ODBC based nicknames.This results in lack of statistics being collected, leading the optimizer to derive at inefficient access plans.
8 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
4 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Federation to support Spark in Databricks platform

Our enterprise data lake has Spark in Databricks and have many projects/ applications waiting to access these datasets from datalake for their use cases, using Federation server Nicknames. We did a quick test in our lab for which we were able to c...
9 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Add bulk insert feature to the Db2 federation

Db2 Federation offers different types of wrappers to transfer data from a source database to a target database. For the federation from Db2 LUW to Oracle we tried the JDBC, NET8 and ODBC wrapper, but all wrappers process the rows one by one. To ge...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 3 Not under consideration

Enable access of hidden columns with federation

Basically, federation is a client application of the data source, so what the database expose to client is seeable for federation. As for the hidden column, it's designed not visible to client, the hidden column is not able to be fetched from the ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Not under consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Federation Server should be able to use Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) when connection to DB2 z/OS.

Implement Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) for DB2 Federation Server connections to DB2 z/OS sysplex data sharing like exists for JDBC driver/DB2 Connect.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Federation support for Aurora PostgreSQL

We have been able to successfully implement federation from Db2 on Linux (v11.5.7) to Aurora PostgreSQL v13.4 using the ODBC wrapper. However, when attempting to implement a similar federation from Db2 on Windows to Aurora PostgreSQL v13.4/v14.3 u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 1