Ibm-db

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* Update setup.py to Honor GCC environment variables

* Support for Python Wheels in ibm_db (Earammak)

* Fix for exception thrown by read_sql_query() from pandas while invoking a stored-procedure

* move files from IBM_DB/ibm_db to root directory

* Support for Null value for an array (Earammak)

* ibm_db_execute: arrays of PYTHON_DECIMAL fails for FLOAT and DOUBLE datatypes

* Fix: uninitialized variable in _python_ibm_db_execute_helper1

* Optimize _checkGcc in setup.py (pschoen-itsc)

* Support for additional connect options - connection attributes

* Fix: ibm_db.execute_many returns bind error with numpy.int64 values 828

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* Fix for issues 796, 764 and added python 3.11 support (809) (Earammak)

* Fix for issue 795 (798) (Earammak)

* Fix for issue 792 (794) (Earammak)

* Fix for pyhon issue 779 and 778 (788) (Earammak)

* Add more explicit mention for Apple Silicon users (780) (Jonathan Herdt)

* Added Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS and Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS for the API's (781) (Earammak)

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* Commit for version change 3.1.3 (776) (Earammak)

* fix for install UnicodeDecodeError 772 (Bimal Jha)

* fix install issue 761, 765, 770 (Bimal Jha)

* Fix for path update and installation failure issue when IBM site down (771) (Earammak)

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* release changes for 3.1.2 (amukherjee)

* setup.py upgrade : better error handling while installation (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Code fix for issue 413 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Code fix for issue 468 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Code change for issue 720 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* documentation updates (Arnab Mukherjee)

* add custom clidriver bin path to ibm_db.py file (Alexandre Duverger)

* doc: update for issue 733 (Bimal Jha)

* fix: for issue 708 (Bimal Jha)

* doc: update about MacOS M1 Chip system (Bimal Jha)

* Add issue template (Bimal Jha)

* Add support for installing clidriver using another URL or artifactory URL. (727) (MarcinMaciaszek)

* updating the CHANGES.md file (Arnab Mukherjee)

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* Post release correction (Arnab Mukherjee)

* fixing the NULL initialization (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Changes for build fix with visual studio 2010 for python 3.4 and 2.7 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* fix for 427 adding readme for pypi site (Arnab Mukherjee)

* fix for 671 and restore python2 support (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Changes in Documentation (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Modification in readme--1 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* test case changes for ZOS (Arnab Mukherjee)

* correction in expectation (Arnab Mukherjee)

* correction in test case 2 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* correction in test case (Arnab Mukherjee)

* adding test cases as part of the PR 418 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Changes from PR 689 and 407 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* adding test case for unicode (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Fixing the issue for fetch assoc (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Adding the logic for fixing unicode values in windows (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Fix for Unicode character (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Test case modification (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Support for arrays in python ibm_db driver (698) (Praveen Narayanappa)

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* changes for new release 3.1.0 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Remove dependency on 2to3 and unpin Setuptools. (Jason R. Coombs)

* Restore Python 2 compatibility. (Jason R. Coombs)

* Apply lib2to3 to the python code (Jason R. Coombs)

* fix for 641 (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Pin to Setuptools < 58 to support builds until use_2to3 can be removed. (Jason R. Coombs)

* update readme.md for known installation issues (Arnab Mukherjee)

* updating: NOTES.md for more api (Arnab Mukherjee)

* Update: documentation update in NOTES.md (Arnab Mukherjee)