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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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API(or Utility) to display to native DLL and jdbc driver version of DB2 z/OS

Hi IBM,Can IBM provide Utility or API to determine the native DLL and jdbc version of JDBC drivers? websphere application server z/OS is able to throw error in case of any mismatch between native DLL and jdbc driver versions?. why can't this can ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 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.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under 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...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fo...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration