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My ideas: Db2 for i

Add the ability to generate an ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) to IBM i Access Client Solutions (iACS)

Deprecated Navigator used to have the ability to generate database maps and I'd like this ability back in iACS. Just had a new person start this week and trying to get them started and this lacks. Not a good first impression on their exposure to I...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Improve SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO and associated API

Hello,Would it be possible to add informations from the publication bulletin in the SYSTOOLS.CVE_INFO and associated API https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/securityapp/api/search? ? The idea is to get the informations referenced in the IBM_SUPPORT_...
16 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Add to OBJECT_STATISTICS a column to inform us if a library is an IBM library

A new column would be added to OBJECT_STATISTICS called something like IBM_OBJECT. A value of 'YES' or 'NO' would be used.At present there does not appear to be an easy or definitive way of determining if a library belongs to IBM.SELECT OBJNAMEFRO...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Made a service for SQLPACKAGE in embedded SQL

Creation of a SQL service that allows analyzing the SQLPACKAGES included in Programs that contain embedded SQL. Like the SQLPACKAGES service that only includes those generated for ODBC. Some of this information is visible in PRTSQLINF, which gener...
8 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

DB2 Alter Table Rename column

DB2 for LUW and z/OS provide the capability to rename a column. DB2 for i should have the same functionality. Renaming a column's system name should be included, too. Use Case: In our IT department, Data Studio is used to create or modify tables a...
almost 10 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Please add subsystem column to QSYS2.JVM_INFO

We use QSYS2.JVM_INFO to monitor specific JVMs, alert of heap size etc. It would be really helpful if we could retrieve/filter on the subsystem of the JVM. We have multiple JVMs with the same runtime characteristics - except subsystem - for instan...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Create a system command to convert JSON files to physical files (PF) and vice versa

IBM i increasingly interacts with external systems through APIs and JSON data. Developers often need to manually parse JSON into SQL tables using complex JSON_TABLE queries, or conversely serialize DB2 data into JSON for outbound APIs. My idea is ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Point SQL messages to the place where they originated

When we see a message in the log like SQL0501 - Cursor xxx not open, and drill down to the details to find where the message comes from we see internal SQL references and not our program name and statement. This makes it hard to debug and fix. Ple...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

Enhance the Query Supervisor for temporary storage thresholds to also apply to the *DATABASE temporary storage buckets

We have had several rogue queries that used very large amounts of temporary storage. We have query supervisor thresholds in place, but it did not alert us because the temporary storage was not part of the job itself, but rather the database tempor...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Functionality already exists

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