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My votes: Db2 for i

Enhance BOOLEAN support in SQL pre-compiler for ILE-RPG

Since the addition of the BOOLEAN data type in DB2 for i existing RPG programs might run into problems. The BOOLEAN support of the SQL pre-compiler is documented here. Now if there is an existing table with a column "column1" of type CHAR(1) it wa...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Enhancement for SELF: exclusion list

In production environments, running SELF with *ERROR monitoring enabled is highly valuable for identifying potential issues in SQL executed on production LPARs. However, a challenge arises when frequently occurring and well‑understood SQL errors—s...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

SQL function for CVE currency

Customers need a way to audit compliance with IBM i CVEs. Each CVE is published with a corresponding patch from IBM. A SQL function similar to PTF currency will give customers the ability to check the patch status for all CVEs published by IBM. Th...
about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Add DB2 for i SQL function for converting date format

With DB2 for i SQL, converting a date to another format (eg. YYYYMMDD to DDMMYYYY) implies using several intermediate functions, especially when input date is in numeric or char format. What about creating a new specific function for simpler date ...
15 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Sql service to get another job's library list

Currently, the LIBRARY_LIST_INFO SQL service is available, but it retrieves the library list for the current job; there are no SQL services that allow you to retrieve the library list for another job. The idea would be to create a table or scalar ...
25 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Formalize and enhance the PARTITION_STATISTICS table function

The Table function QSYS2.PARTITION_STATISTICS effectively produces a member list for a given file name. This is a vast improvement over calling QUSLMBR or using the currently exposed SQL Views which can be slow. Please harden up the parameters (do...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

Improve the DB2 GENERATE_UUID function

For now, the function can only generate UUIDs according to version 4 of RFC 4122. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=functions-generate-uuid We would like to be able to call the function and specify that it should generate a version 7 UUID,...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

SQL Service to provide details of the contents of the TCP host table entries file

The TCP host table entries file, QATOCHOST in QUSRSYS is a special file whose access is some what restricted. It contains IP addresses and host names for other IP hosts, including other servers, devices and printers that the system may need to com...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

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 ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i Future consideration

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