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Search results: Application Development

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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Change replace System-defined in db2 luw to consider NLS characters in search.

Wrong result when executing the replace function with certain characters in the codeset euc-kr DB. (It comes out fine for utf-8 DB, but not for euc-kr.) Case No : TS012082536 *L3 team comment* ##################################################### ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Data transfer between different database schema

Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
5 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

Request for SKIP LOCKED DATA for DB2 LUW

Our products are implemented in all 3 relational databases. We are converting the current application level lock handling into database level locks. In one scenario, the application looks to fail when it is not able to get the required lock in the...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Delivered

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

COMMIT NOWAIT

COMMIT NOWAIT could be used to accelerate commit processing (releasing locks while log data not yet written to disk nor transferred to HADR standby) . There are applications that know how to restart their database transaction in case the transacti...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration