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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Not under consideration

ACS Screen split (Horizontal/Vertical)

During our transition from Bosanova (telnet client) to the 5250 of i Access Client, a key feature we found lacking was the ability to split sessions into 2 or 4 parts with a single button press. In our previous Bosanova setup, this functionality a...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under 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

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 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

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13 OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9 TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0 TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world wri...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Provide .NET Standard 2.1 compliant nuget for use with Entity Framework 6.4+

Support, We currently are converting our applications to .NET Core. Microsoft provided a .NET Standard 2.1 compatible version of EF starting with EF 6.3 and continuing with EF 6.4. The issue however is we are having issues getting your latest EF 6...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 6

JDBC driver parameter to compress LOB/XMLs to reduce network overhead

We have a JDBC application INSERT or UPDATING a LOB/XML column. Currently this can cause transaction slowness as the INSERT or UPDATE has to wait for the uncompressed LOB to travel across network.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

support for Decimal128 data type in nosqljson driver

please refer to case link below https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002mdjpkAAA/data-conversion-issue-when-loading-mongo-json-into-db2?language=en_US sample record in import file {"_id":{"$oid":"5a15e486cf8e89614439bf9d"},"dealerCode":"200...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration