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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Db2 for i

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Allow CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to set the correct source info in the resulting table

When we create a table using CREATE TABLE to create a new table, the object description of the resulting table contains the source information for the source member used by RUNSQLSTM to create the table. When we use CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE to repl...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Under review

Last Updated Date for Server Firmware

Last server firmware upgrade date is not reflected when we use this command, DSPFMWSTS. However it is very beneficial to know when the last update/upgrade was performed by seeing this installation date next to the current level of firmware. We do ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review

Embedded SQL - SQLTYPE xLOB_FILE with CCSID

Since release 7.2 variables in RPG can be defined with a CCSID. With embedded SQL it is possible to read from the IFS and writing into the IFS with (static) SQL SELECT-Statements just by specifying a xLOB_FILE. A xLOB_FILE must be defined in compo...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Under review