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My votes: Db2 for i

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    Extend the QCMDEXC SQL procedure and function to log the CL command run

    Many SQL programmers using the QSYS2.QCMDEXC procedure and function are logging the CL command specified as parameter to the procedure / function, often to the joblog by calling SYSTOOLS.LPRINTF, just before calling QCMDEXC. The idea is to have QC...
    27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add SQL functions to return elements from qualified job name

    When we use the IBM i Services or SQL PL we often have a qualified job name, e.g. in the global variable QSYS2.JOB_NAME. Many of the services have been expanded with the elements of the job name in addition to the qualified job name. i.e. job name...
    27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Make SQL function URL_ENCODE support RFC3986

    RFC3986 dictates that any space in a URL must be converted to "%20". However, when we run "values URL_ENCODE(' Hello there!'), we get "Hello+there%21" with the plus sign instead of "%20". The same is output from URLENCODE in SYSTOOLS. It seems lik...
    27 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Make it possible to change the SQE Temp Storage 7% Threshold

    The current fixed SQE Temp Storage Threshold is set to 7%. I have no idea how long this value is in place, but my guess is that values was set to this values decades ago. Over the year the usage of temporary storage has grown on nearly every IBM i...
    about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add item to RGZPFM status file to show progress

    For system where table reorganizations have to be done frequently but within a timeframe, it would be useful to know the percentage at which a reorganization was stopped, for analysis and forecasting. Schemas in ACS already shows progress, but the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Further enhancements to the SQL scalar GENERATE_SPREADSHEET functionality to allow naming a sheet

    Along with the required enhancements to ACS to enable this in the scalar function, provide the ability to name that sheet when creating it in the xls or xlsx workbook. We now have the ability to append a sheet and specify which sheet to add so the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

    At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
    about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    New QSYS2 Table function : QSYS2.WRITER_INFO

    Hello, I wanted to retrieve the list of all the writers present on my client's machine.I tried with the SQL table : QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS.SELECT * FROM TABLE (QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS('*ALL ','*DEVD')) WHERE OBJATTRIBUTE in ('PRTLAN','PRTVRT','PR...
    3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    FETCH LAST n ROWS ONLY Support in SQL for IBM i

    FETCH LAST n ROWS ONLY Support in SQL for IBM i Summary Currently, DB2 for i allows developers to fetch the first n rows of a result set using the FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY clause. However, there is no direct equivalent syntax to fetch the last n ro...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    Add *OUTPUT to WRKSMTPUSR

    Hi, After doing a STRIMPSMTP, we may need to do some change on each record to the list provided by WRKSMTPUSR. With thousend of records impossible to do that by hand. It would be usefull to get the same list in a PF to use ADDUSRSMTP or CHGUSRSMTP...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

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