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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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ProActive DB Connections Requirements

In the current state where we call the pool.Open() function provided in the go_ibm_db library, it doesn’t establish any connection during the call and only when we execute the query on the provided *DBP(struct) object it creates an actual db conne...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Multifactor Authentication Support for db2connectactivate utility execution on z/OS Db2

We have a large amount of z/OS Db2 workload initiated from remote connections. Initially we used Db2 Connect servers to facilitate those connections but have recently moved to direct connections whicWackage. We use the db2connectactivate utility t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

IBM DB Python Driver: Support for wheels and smaller module

It would be great to have some form of binary distribution of this Db2 driver for Python. It would simplify building Docker containers and help reducing the container size and setup time.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Delivered

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Update PHP Buildpack for Cloud Foundry to support PHP 7.3/7.4 with DB2 on the cfLinuxsf3 stack.

In order to host a PHP/DB2 application in the IBM Public Cloud, you need a Buildpack that supports the latest version of PHP & DB2. The existing buildpack only supports upto PHP 7.1, this went EOS Dec 2019. This means anyone using it to create...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered

.NET Core 3.0 Support

I have a developer who wants to use Blazor to build his application. It needs to query Db2 for z/OS. He reported the following error when using the Entity Framework driver with Db2 for z/OS: Method 'get_Info' in type 'IBM.EntityFrameworkCore.In...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 16 Delivered

Officially Support Db2 Connect .NET core in AWS

I can currently connect using the "mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:2.2-stretch" distro with IBM.Data.DB2.Core-lnx nuget package from AWS Fargate. I am told by support that this is not officially supported. Please officially support this setup. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Db2 Connect Support for Java 11

I will build the system in “Java version11”.however, “Db2 Connect” does not support “Java version11”.I hope that “Db2 Connect” will support “Java version11” by 2019/11.Thanks.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered

Support for Windows 2016 on 10.5

Requesting support for Windows Server 2016 in DB2 ESE 10.5
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered