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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Implement SQLCODE mapping for Federated Stored Procedures

Db2 Connect provides SQLCODE mapping when connecting to a back-end Db2 z/OS database. Federation does not offer the same feature, instead translating user-driven SQL errors to SQL1822N (SQLCODE -1822). When invoking a Db2 z/OS federated stored pro...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 1 Future consideration

Support DECFLOAT in federated data type mapping between Db2 and Db2 for z/OS

Add support for the DECFLOAT data type allowing NICKNAME creation against a Db2 for z/OS table with a DECFLOAT column. Without this support, the CREATE NICKNAME fails and a workaround is required to map the data.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

creating a nickname of a DB2i series table when it have indexes using expressions

hi, there is a limitation of the DB2 federation, it is impossible to create a nickname to a DB2i table if it has an index using expression https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/drda-wrapper-returns-sql0901n-index-column-name-not-found-search-1-while-c...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Federation for XML data type

Description Federation queries (select statements) against an Oracle server are failing if the Oracle table has an XMLTYPE column. Even a select count(*) against these tables fails. Tables in the same Oracle server that do NOT have XMLTYPE colum...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Remove serialization when using DB2 Federation to access a delimited file

If you define multiple nicknames in DB2 federation server that access a delimited file, they are serialized thru a common 'channel' that accesses the file resulting is long elapse times event through there are system resources available. Please re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 1 Not under consideration