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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types DATETIME

Hi, we are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. Currently using the Net5.IBM.Data.Db2 driver connecting through the DRDA protocol.For DATETIME data types we are having trouble searching. A simple query is throwing the excepti...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Future consideration

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel Today it is mandatory to define sslClientLabel (aka Friendly Name) if SSLClientKeystoredb value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE" is set. We h...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

Allow DB2 connection to be inherited by a subshell

With the db2 command it is possible to execute a wide variety of DB2 tasks from a shell environment. It is however not possible to use variable substitution in a way that feels natural in a Unix environment. The execution of a shell script starts ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future 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 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout: If JCC driver is connected to Db2 for z/OS and queries over this connection gets offloaded to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA), the queries will return incorrout if STOP ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2

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...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release