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When using SSL to connect to DB2 on z/OS. Add the OCSP feature in the SSL handshake.

One of the new audit requirements in our organization is that OCSP or CRL should be used when SSL is used for communication. If i'm good informed currently this option isn't available in the SSL communication between DB2 on z/OS and it's DB2 conne...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Full Entity Framework Support through DB2 Connect (Code First / Migrations)

In another RFE/Idea (IBMI-I-1135) asked for EF support to be delivered and the response was to use DB2 Connect. We do use db2 connect to get what support there is for EF but one of the critical pieces missing is code first and migrations. https://...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Make "Allowed group profiles" available in User API (/api/security/users/<<userid>>)

With CP4D 4.7.3 (Open Pages 9.0), Users are assigned with group profiles which are displayed in UI under "Allowed group profiles". But this information is not available in users API. It only has "Allowed user profiles". Without this using this API...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 3 Under review

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

URL for JDBC without ending semi-colon in optional parameters

When using extra parameters for the connection in a JDBC URL, the complete URL should end with a semi-colon. However, other drivers for other RDBMS do not need the las semi-colon; actually, the semi-colon is only used for key/value separation, not...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Flexible OpenPages installation options

Currently the OpenPages Installer runs a series of pre-validation checks with minimal optionality to ignore these checks. A few examples: Forced to install to install (or at least pass validation) OpenPages & Cognos, even if I only want to ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

High availability and disaster recovery capabilities for global search server

High availability and disaster recovery capabilities are important for the client. However, in the current version, it is not advisable to configure more than one global search server. Is it possible to configure search servers with high availabil...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration