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RFE #2 EXPLAIN ONLY CAPABILITY REQUESTED FROM DB2ZAI UI

Informed decision for the initial rebinds • EXPLAIN ONLY option in Db2zAI UI to understand the access path before the choosing.
about 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Submitted

System Assessment-Hide/Unhide metrics features based on user role

Currently, each user is able to Hide/Unhide Metrics under the Db2zAI dashboard for their own view. It would be very helpful if the Db2 AI administrator could choose which metrics would be available to show. For example, there are metrics that we o...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Submitted

Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Functionality already exists

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for DRDA servers

On the iseries/AS400 it's possible that a table contains non numeric data in a numeric column.In order to allow access to such tables, without getting an exception, there is a "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for OleDB connections:http://www-01.ibm.co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Not under consideration

Make DB2 federation option DB2_TWO_PHASE_COMMIT compatible with HOST and PORT options

The new Db2 11.5 HOST and PORT options (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-database) remove the need to catalog federated source Db2 databases for standard connections. This simplifies configuration. However, for two phase comm...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0

Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration