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My ideas: Db2 for i

Add the option to log the deletion of MTIs.

Recently I discovered that next to a plan being removed from the Plan Cache, there is another reason why an MTI can be deleted. There is a connection between a MTIs and a Plans in Plan Cache. so when a Plan is removed/pruned from the Plan Cache th...
19 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

Add options to indicate the trace output file and options for HTTP functions

Calling axiscAxisStartTrace("/tmp/axis.log":*NULL) followed by QSYS2.HTTP_GET or QSYS2.HTTP_POST via embedded SQL does not work when the http functions run in the default activation group but the service program for the axiscAxisStartTrace() runs ...
20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

CREATE VIEW without dependency

We have a need to create views that might span multiple schemas (aka. libraries) and if you create a view that does this, you cannot clear any of the libraries because of the dependency. My work around has been to create a user defined table funct...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

improve MERGE by adding the option "WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN DELETE"

Today, it is impossible to use the DELETE clause behind WHEN NOT MATCHED.Some DBMS other than DB2 allow this.Would it be possible to add this feature, like in this example ? MERGE target_table USING source_table ON merge_condition WHEN MATCHED THE...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Submitted

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