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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2015

Oracle NUMBER being inserted as NULL(RIMS)

PMR extract: CUSTOMER REP : Tapio Vaattanen 905-413-3930 ENVIRONMENT : UDB/Linux v9.7.3 + special_26292 IBM Data movement Tool (IDMT) PROBLEM : SQL3140W loading Oracle data into DB2. Customer expects DB2 to round up the values to load when using DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA. Instead DB2 inserts NULL values +LINZER, MATT -DB2FORLUW -L18Z/-------P2S2-11/03/28-16:21 -AT Problem Description: Numbers larger than 37 digits are loaded as nulls Problem Resolution: Talked to load team. This is working as designed, but should be addressed in a DCR since it probably shouldn't work this way.