iSecurity DB-Gate Release News

Welcome to the iSecurity DB-Gate Release News page, your trusted source for the latest product updates, enhancements, security improvements, and maintenance releases. This page is designed to help customers, partners, and IBM i professionals stay informed about every new version of iSecurity DB-Gate, providing a comprehensive overview of new capabilities, resolved issues, performance optimizations, and compatibility updates.

Each release reflects Raz-Lee Security’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative cybersecurity solutions that protect IBM i environments against evolving threats while helping organizations maintain regulatory compliance and operational excellence. Whether you are upgrading to the latest version, planning your maintenance schedule, or reviewing recently introduced functionality, these release notes provide the technical information you need to deploy updates confidently and efficiently.

The information published here may include new features, product enhancements, defect corrections, security fixes, usability improvements, support for new IBM technologies, operating system compatibility updates, and recommendations for installation or configuration. We encourage customers to review the release notes before installing a new version to understand any changes that may affect their environment or existing configurations.

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Our development team continuously works with customers, business partners, and IBM i security experts to improve every aspect of the iSecurity Suite. Feedback from real-world deployments helps shape new functionality and ensures that each release delivers practical value for organizations of all sizes across banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, logistics, and other industries.

Version 2.71 (February 2026)

  • All known issues were resolved and incorporated into a new version to simplify installation and upgrade.

Version 2.62 (June 2025)

New Features

  • User and a password to be injected into the JDBC URL. This feature can be used by JDBC drivers allowing for user/password in the URL. For example, when dealing with Oracle DB add the user/password to be injected. The password is encrypted and is required if you specify a user. It is up to the JDBC driver to use or ignore the injected password. If a user/password are specified in the CONNECT statement like: CONNECT TO SOME-RDB USER SOME-USER USING SOME-PASSWORD

Or are extracted from server authentication entries (STRDB > #21)
Or are specified in the “Force RDB User”

  • The driver will make the decision whether to ignore or to respect the URL’s user/password.

 

Enhancements

  • Avoid Kerberos lookup for the AS400 object that is created for run mode #1.
  • Select statements with Three Part Name – added support for nested SELECT and WITH statements.
    Example: with tmp as (select A from B.C.D where E = 2) select * from tmp
  • Better support for VARBINARY types
  • For Oracle only: in ARXD0100 and ARXB0100 formats, keep original bound variables syntax in SQL statements.

 

Fixes

  • Handling of bound variables in ARXD0100 format (Execute bound statement that returns data format). As shown here in IBM documentation:

“SELECT INTO statement produces a result table that contains at most one row. The statement assigns the values in that row to variables.”

Example: SELECT * INTO :B,:C FROM LIB.FILE WHERE A= :E

We have here three bound variables. Returned data is written to :B and :C variables.

  • Removed code that deals with LONGVARBINARY type.
  • We now accurately identify cases in which input bound variables have indicator variables attached. DB-Gate does not support these indicator variables, since they are pointers.
    Example: SELECT * INTO :A ,:B FROM L1.A2 where A=:C:CNULL

Here, :CNULL is an input indicator variable that is not available to DB-Gate.

  • We now ship an MSSQL driver to use with Java8.