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Db2

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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...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 4 Delivered

Support of btrfs on Db2 11.1.3.3 is required

Daimler needs support of btrfs on Db2 11.1 on SLES 12 SP3.result of IBM PMR (Case TS000138704):“Although the DB2 documentation only lists recommended file systems, support for unlisted file system might be limited and there is no guarantee that ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

enable catalog database with SECURITY SSL in LDAP (MS active directory)

After enabling ssl for connections to db2 we want to register (catalog) database in Microsoft active directory (LDAP) to provide it to all user. But "db2 register db2 server in ldap as DATABASE protocol tcpip hostname hosta svcename 50005 SECURITY...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Security 1 Delivered

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 ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 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

DB2 currently committed semantics available in a pureScale environment

[Background]Customer chose DB2 pureScale as their enterprise-level integrated database and is building four members and two CFs as their pureScale environment. The important keys DB2 pureScale chosen by customer are : - flexible application worklo...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered

Make reducible the tablespace size in pureScale environments

DB2 LUW does not support reducing container file size in the alter tablespace statement as below. •The following clauses are not supported in DB2 pureScale® environments:◦LOWER HIGH WATER MARK◦LOWER HIGH WATER MARK STOP◦REDUCE, unless it ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Delivered

Solution for flushing (and replacing) cached external 64 bit routines (db2fmp processes)

Solution for flushing (and replacing) cached external 64 bit routines (db2fmp processes) We are running in our online production environment thousands external db2 routines per minute. Because of its performance we are forced to cache these r...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Delivered

support array fetches for embedded SQL COBOL applications

With Db2 Version 11.1 Mod3 Fix Pack3 iFix001 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, the CLP command precompile or prep now supports EXEC SQL statements like this: EXEC SQL FETCH c1 FOR :cnt ROWS INTO :pname, :deptEND-EXEC. However, DB2 precompiler services...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Delivered

Include failure / warning counts in mon_get_pkg_cache_stmt

It's currently not possible to monitor the failure rate of an SQL statement. For example, count of dupkey on INSERT. Likewise for 'soft' errors (warnings) like +100 - row not found on INSERT or DELETE. High rates of these can be a significant drai...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered