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Search results: Db2

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Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Delivered

.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

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types DATETIME

Hi, we are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. Currently using the Net5.IBM.Data.Db2 driver connecting through the DRDA protocol.For DATETIME data types we are having trouble searching. A simple query is throwing the excepti...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Future consideration

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

Provide .NET Standard 2.1 compliant nuget for use with Entity Framework 6.4+

Support, We currently are converting our applications to .NET Core. Microsoft provided a .NET Standard 2.1 compatible version of EF starting with EF 6.3 and continuing with EF 6.4. The issue however is we are having issues getting your latest EF 6...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 6 Delivered

add DB2 drivers support for Entity Framework 6.3

I can imagine most of the .NET APIs currently connecting to DB2 are using Entity framework with your EF DB2 drivers (EntityFramework.IBM.DB2). With the release of .NET Core 3.0 & Entity Framework 6.3, the EF 6.3 runtime package now targets .NE...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Delivered

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

Implemented the support for XA

The .NET core started XA support from .NET 7 but driver has not yet implemented the support for XA in our core package. Functionality is needed to support 2 phase commit in .NET Windows application
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Officially Support Db2 Connect .NET core in AWS

I can currently connect using the "mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/sdk:2.2-stretch" distro with IBM.Data.DB2.Core-lnx nuget package from AWS Fargate. I am told by support that this is not officially supported. Please officially support this setup. ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration