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Search results: Db2 Connect and Drivers

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Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 76 Delivered

Add support in Db2 to disable GSKit session cache using GSK_V2_SIDCACHE_SIZE and GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE

Db2 currently uses GSKit for cryptographic and TLS operations, and the GSKit session cache is enabled by default. While GSKit itself allows disabling the session cache by setting environment variables such as GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE=0, Db2 does not h...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Under review

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Submitted

.NET Core 3.0 Support

I have a developer who wants to use Blazor to build his application. It needs to query Db2 for z/OS. He reported the following error when using the Entity Framework driver with Db2 for z/OS: Method 'get_Info' in type 'IBM.EntityFrameworkCore.Inf...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 16 Delivered

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Add a parameter value like GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE for SSLClientKeystoredb on linux

On windows systems you can configure the Db2 Data Server Driver Package to search for the CA certificate in the Microsoft key store by setting <parameter name="SSLClientKeystoredb" value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE"/> in db2dsdriver.cfg. Unfor...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Allow DB2 connection to be inherited by a subshell

With the db2 command it is possible to execute a wide variety of DB2 tasks from a shell environment. It is however not possible to use variable substitution in a way that feels natural in a Unix environment. The execution of a shell script starts ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Update PHP Buildpack for Cloud Foundry to support PHP 7.3/7.4 with DB2 on the cfLinuxsf3 stack.

In order to host a PHP/DB2 application in the IBM Public Cloud, you need a Buildpack that supports the latest version of PHP & DB2. The existing buildpack only supports upto PHP 7.1, this went EOS Dec 2019. This means anyone using it to create...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered