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Db2

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Enhance Db2 Federation to support LOBs as remote procedure parameters

Currently LOBs are not supported as an input/output parameters for a remote stored procedure in Oracle via federation. This creates a limitation of 32k (VARCHAR2) at the moment. It would be useful to pass larger strings or XML and be able to map t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 Federation to support pushdown of CSE to Oracle

There is a need to support the pushdown of CSEs (Common Subquery Expressions) as part of the federation to Oracle databases. This limitation has existed for quite a while and there has been an ongoing request for this functionality for years.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Add support in Db2 Federation for join and aggregation pushdown for MongoDB

Currently, the driver for use with MongoDB does not support the $lookup operator which would allow for the pushdown of the joining of two or more collections to the source DB. Adding support would allow for joining collections at the source and re...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Add support for a CLOB data type for MongoDB federation

Currently a long string or text field greater than 32k is truncated when fetching from MongoDB. This limits the data that can be retrieved and processed via Federation from MongoDB and other NoSQL data sources.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Certify Oracle 23c for Federation from Db2

The next major release of Oracle (23c) is due out this year (2023) and customers will start to migrate their federated source databases to the new release. We need to ensure that we certify compatibility as soon as possible to keep up with the tec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry to overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations is required.

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry is required which overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations to a defined value, because for data center operations any Load operation is critical.DB2_LOAD_NONRECOVERABLE_OVERRIDE=COPY YES USE TSM and DB2_LO...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Allow load modifier options in db2move load (generatedoverride identityoverride usedefaults etc.)

Currently when using db2move utility to export from one system and load to another, there is no way to specify load options for any tables with Identity or Generated columns etc. for which we need to preserve the data values, and the db2move load ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support IBM DB2 on Amazon Linux2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has End of life as April 2021. We use IBM DB2 11.1.4 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for our MDM instances which is not compatible with the higher versions of Ubuntu -18.04 LTS and above. Same is true for the updated versio...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add more debug information for error [22001] [IBM] [DB2/NT64] SQL0302N

Ticket TS003868349 In a real-life application, I had a headache with error [22001] [IBM] [DB2/NT64] SQL0302N "The value of a host variable in the EXECUTE or OPEN statement is too large for its corresponding use." Namely, in an application which de...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration