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Db2 Connect and Drivers

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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

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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

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
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

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

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...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
10 months 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

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

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

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