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Operation guarantee for DB2 v11.1 Federation Server

System DB2 v11.1 Federation ServerRequest: Provide operation guarantee for Oracle NET client 12.2.0.1 for Data Source Oracle Database 11gR2(11.2.0.3) URL: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049211 ---------------------12 One of t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Create federation without ID and Password

Like Oracle's dblink, client want a way to authenticate when they access the nickname rather than when federation is created
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Shipment of FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY (MS-SQL)

When setting the option FETCH_N_ROWS for a remote database of type MS-SQL Server the fetch first rows only statement should be shipped down. Currently this feature is only supported for DRDA and oracle data sources
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

FS generates wrong remote SQL not working against oracle

what reported in PMR 65677.227.000 treated as expected even w/ wrong remote SQL generated agaisnt ORACLE and a RFE suggested to help address the need
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

allow external UDFs to be precomputed by the DB2 compiler

what reported in PMR 14482.227.000 treated as expected and a RFE suggested to help address the need
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum allowed size of DB2 V10.5 data types in create nickname

SQL Create Nickname statement returns the following error:SQL0901N The SQL statement failed because of a non-severesystem error. Subsequent SQL statements can be processed. (Reason "Invalid nickname column length". SQLSTATE=58004, SQLCODE=-901, DR...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

support of the new data type NUMERIC from Teradata

Creating a nickname to a teradata server ends with error: SQL3324N Column "xxxx" has a type of "N " which is not recognized. Target column type NUMERIC is not recognized
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

FED DB2 WIN 10.5 - MS SQL - DATE & TIME Columns converted to VARCHAR in DB2 NICKNAMES

IBM DB2 LUW Support Team asked me to use the SQL Server driver 6.01.7601.17514 for my FEDERATION between a DB2 10.5 FP6 WINDOWS and MS SQL2012.This, to solve an issue with bad conversion of VARCHAR & VARBINARY (max).Now, I've another issue rel...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Codepage SERVER option for DRDA Wrapper and IBM DB2 data sources of Federation Server

When the code point size differs between the federated database and the remote data source, you can get truncated data returned or insertion or update failures. For DB2 datasources (DRDA Wrapper) we need to manually adjust nickname column size or ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

HADR+F2PC

The customer uses Federation to access tables between two DB2 databases. DB2 V9.7. There is Q Rep and HADR in place and no issues reported for past few years. Now the customer upgraded the instance to version 10.5.Once the databases were migrated,...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration