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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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How to change Correl-ID on DB2 z/OS using DB2 Connect from Microfocus Enterprise Server?

Hello We are from Banco Santander Brasil. As a global project, we are moving some applications from z/OS mainframe environment to Microfocus Enterprise Server on Linux. Microfocus Enterprise Server product accesses DB2 z/OS through DB2 Connect v.1...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Add package name to SQL0552N msg

When db2exfmt is used from remote clients with different db2levels than the db2 server, than binding of packages with this level is needed. If the users got BIND rights granted, this is done impliziely without problems. However if users don't have...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Not under consideration

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

JDBC driver parameter to compress LOB/XMLs to reduce network overhead

We have a JDBC application INSERT or UPDATING a LOB/XML column. Currently this can cause transaction slowness as the INSERT or UPDATE has to wait for the uncompressed LOB to travel across network.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

support for Decimal128 data type in nosqljson driver

please refer to case link below https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002mdjpkAAA/data-conversion-issue-when-loading-mongo-json-into-db2?language=en_US sample record in import file {"_id":{"$oid":"5a15e486cf8e89614439bf9d"},"dealerCode":"200...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Silent uninstall of ibm data server runtime client renders in error with db2lswtch

We are having problem when uninstalling IBM Data Server Runtime Client 11.5.7.0 from a script. Install works fine but when uninstalling I use this command from a command window as administrator MSIEXEC /X {9915B73E-D89B-4D1C-89B3-5FEF7978024C} /le...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration