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Federation

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Enable "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for DRDA servers

On the iseries/AS400 it's possible that a table contains non numeric data in a numeric column.In order to allow access to such tables, without getting an exception, there is a "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for OleDB connections:http://www-01.ibm.co...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Not under consideration

NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

[Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Can access federation object in the trigger body

The db2 instance have multiple database, and customer want to access a user table that locate in another database through Db2 trigger .
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Federation JDBC Wrappre to Cassandra support

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Cassandra database Improve data type mappings between Cassandra and Db2. Accessing Cassndra via Federation JDBC wrapper using Cassandra driver from www....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Fed Server Kerberos support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to have a Greenplum driver for Federation server. Eventually they would like to have Kerberos supported for authentication to the Greenplum Server
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Federation Server Administrator Authority

Provide a Federation Server Administrator authority (like the security administrator database-level authorization)This new Federation Server Administrator authority • should provide all authorities needed to create, maintain and delete federated...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Trigger in federated tables

Currently, triggers are not supported with federated tables. That generates an error 30090 errorcode 22; however, this is useful for distributed applications.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Not under consideration