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Federation

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Federation Server Administrator Authority

Provide a Federation Server Administrator authority (like the security administrator database-level authorization)This new Federation Server Administrator authority • should provide all authorities needed to create, maintain and delete federated...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Trigger in federated tables

Currently, triggers are not supported with federated tables. That generates an error 30090 errorcode 22; however, this is useful for distributed applications.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Not under consideration

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

allow ORACLE RAW(n) data to be used in a FS pushdown function

what reported in PMR 12893,227,000 treated as expected and a RFE suggested to help address the need
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

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