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Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM Cloud APM Agent for WebSphere MQ Agent on Solaris Sparc platform

Add support for IBM Cloud APM Agent for WebSphere MQ Agent on Solaris Sparc platform as we have primarily solaris sparc platform which has IBM Websphere MQ and your IBM Cloud APM agent 8.1.0.4.10 doesn't support this platform.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Update Facets property for entity model schould work correctly

When you add Tables from an existing Database to an entity model all seems ok. If you activate 'Update Facets property' to be able to see automatically changes of field lengths ( normally existing fields are not changed automatically) the prolem i...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0

Enhance the processing of large db2dsdriver.cfg files with a large number of entries.

Larger customers with a significant number of database servers and databases have created db2dsdriver.cfg files with 1000's of database entries. The current method for processing these to make a connection is not very efficient and can significant...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Adding enableWLB via command db2cli writcfg add -dsn <alias> -parameter "enableWLB=true"

As discussed in PMR 01458,999,724 adding enableWLB parameter with "db2cli writecfg add..." is a known limitation.Could you please remove this limitation. Workaround is to edit XML-file db2dsdriver.cfg manually.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Notification for reaching thresholds in Op Install

The customer is looking to add a notification during the install process of OpenPages. This notification will be sent to administrators when the IBPMMessage queues in WAS console reach a threshold limit of 40000 before it reaches the maximum limit...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Call stored procedure from Cobol in SP

I have a Client that previously used this IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries connector, to execute local WEB sessions, they decided to go to the Azure Cloud, the only thing they changed to the SP was the IBM.Data.DB2.Core Connector, with its corresponding chang...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

improve exception logging for connection strings in .NET connector for DB2

While we were attempting to setup SSL connectivity from a .NET app to a DB2 server, we were getting the following error:CLI0157E Error opening a file. SQLSTATE=HY507 a vast majority of the documentation available online (and IBM support) indicated...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Request to evergreen to the latest Nodejs version 12 for OpenPages

We found that the current OP servers are using nodejs version 8.1.4 (via OP agent/installer), which is outdated and not supported since Dec 2019 as advised by HSBC ITID. Hence, it is needed to evergreen to the latest Nodejs version 12 to minimize ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Is a defect