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Federation

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Federation Server Administrator Authority

Provide a Federation Server Administrator authority (like the security administrator database-level authorization)This new Federation Server Administrator authority • should provide all authorities needed to create, maintain and delete federated...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for DRDA servers

On the iseries/AS400 it's possible that a table contains non numeric data in a numeric column.In order to allow access to such tables, without getting an exception, there is a "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for OleDB connections:http://www-01.ibm.co...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Not under consideration

Codepage SERVER option for DRDA Wrapper and IBM DB2 data sources of Federation Server

When the code point size differs between the federated database and the remote data source, you can get truncated data returned or insertion or update failures. For DB2 datasources (DRDA Wrapper) we need to manually adjust nickname column size or ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

HADR+F2PC

The customer uses Federation to access tables between two DB2 databases. DB2 V9.7. There is Q Rep and HADR in place and no issues reported for past few years. Now the customer upgraded the instance to version 10.5.Once the databases were migrated,...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Update an Oracle table thru Fed Server

Since we have chinese characters in db2, we need to have default sorting by pinyin. Therefore, we can only add Collating sequence (CLDR181_LZH) when creating the db. However, when we use Federation Server which connect to Oracle, I can't use strin...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Federation Server support for REST/Json

We have Federation Server 10.5 and trying to connect to one of our data source. The service available is REST/Json. We want some support in federating to rest/json from our federation server. The web service wrapper available in the federation ser...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Federated environment;connections to SQL server.(RIMS)

Customer wants to have the 'check connection on open' feature in the DB2 client driver, like it exist on the the AS400 driver (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246440.pdf, page 55). ? Request was made via PMR and lab's answer was : <...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Text Search Synonym Table(RIMS)

Have a way to automatically create this table without typing this. Perhaps a 'gui' or a way to export from an Excel spreadsheet. Anything except to manually type in from a command line. Jeff Mousty State Farm during the Frequency Call with Tim Vin...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Range-Partitioning support for dimensional ranges (not to be confused with MDC)(RIMS)

Customer has use-cases for defining range-partitions across dimensions and not just columns. Currently, DB2 only supports ranges defined across columns (see Discussion section for an example).
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

predicates blocked when temp table involved in federated joins

Unacceptable slowness and/or timeout for affected SQL due to predicate blocking resulting in fetching all data from backend
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0