The following table lists outstanding issues that apply to
DirectConnect products. Each issue identifies specific hardware
or operating system information, a workaround (if available), and
the QTS assigned to it.
Known issues for specific DirectConnect products without QTS
identifiers are described in sections following this table.
Table 6: Known
issues for DirectConnect products
Product
|
Platform
|
Description
|
Workaround
|
QTS #
|
|---|
All DirectConnects except DirectConnect for
Oracle
|
All
|
Express transfer does not support the
transfer of char datatypes to and from decimal datatypes.
|
Convert query datatypes from char to decimal datatypes
in the transfer query statement by using the SQL CAST function.
|
None
|
|
Express transfer does not support the
transfer of text datatypes to and from char datatypes.
|
Convert query datatypes from text to char datatypes
in the transfer query statement by using the SQL CAST function.
|
|
DirectConnect for
DB2 UDB only
|
All
|
CLOB data is limited to 32K. BLOB datatype
is not supported.
|
Use DirectConnect for z/OS.
|
None
|
All
|
Using the AlternateID property
to connect to the mainframe causes errors.
|
None.
|
385229
|
All
|
DB2 varchar datatype
larger than 255 characters is incorrectly reported as a varchar datatype
by the sp_columns property.
|
None. (A fix is expected in 12.6 ESD #1.)
|
383494
385500
|
All
|
Specifying host name as the IP Address
will cause a failure on some Sun Solaris systems.
|
The IP Number must be specified as the
IP Address.
|
None
|
