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Search results: Db2 Federation

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Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Submitted

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Submitted

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / 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...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Not under consideration

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Needs more information

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 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Add support in Db2 Federation for the pushdown of Timestamp to MongoDB

Currently Federation to MongoDB does not support the pushdown of the Timestamp data type. This limits the ability to filter data by date or timestamp at the source.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Delivered

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 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered