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My ideas: Db2 for i

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    UDTF returning dynamic resultset

    Today stored procedures can return dynamic result sets. It will be appreciated if UDTF could have the same feature. Today you can only return a TABLE, you need however to define each column even though a cursor will contain the required informatio...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 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...
    4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    Custom SQLSTATE/MESSAGE for SIGNAL statement

    Currently it is possible with the SIGNAL statement to return a custom SQLSTATE and message. DECLARE COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000'; DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND SIGNAL SQLSTATE '75001' SET MESSAGE_TEXT = 'Country no...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Materialized Query Table functionality

    Add capability in SQL to create Materialized Query Tables (MQT) with the following:1. data initially deferred refresh immediate2. maintained by system3. set integrity for (MQT) immediate checked incremental (or Not Incremental) Use Case: create ta...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    We need >99 QDBSRVnn tasks

    The current limit of QDBSRVnn tasks is 99. We need more such tasks. We need a three-digit number. Use Case: We need more tasks to rebuild access paths in parallel. The current limit of QDBSRVnn is 99. Only half of them (50) are used for rebuild. T...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    With CREATE TABLE ( LIKE SomeTable ), allow inheritance of nullability and labels

    When doing CREATE OR REPLACE MYTABLE ( LIKE ANOTHERTABLE INCLUDING COLUMN DEFAULTS ) Please inherit nullability and labels from ANOTHERTABLE, or, give the option to, similar to INCLUDING COLUMN DEFAULTS. Use Case: I often need to create a table th...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

    Local scoped functions and procedures in UDTF and stored procedures

    For structural reasons you sometime need to encapsulate logic as locally scoped functions and procedure when you create UDTF and stored procedures - just like you would do in any other programing language. However SQL-PL does not allow that in the...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    JavaScript (Node.js) as native stored procedure / UDTF language

    Today we can use PL/SQL, java and any other ILE language to make stored procedures and UDTF in Db2. However new languages are being used for modern application ie javaScript within Node.js and Python to name a few - and and other languages from th...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    A SQL view to display the information on a line

    A view or function that provides information as in the DSPLIND command or the API QDCRLIND More here : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=ssw_ibm_i_76/apis/QDCRLIND.html
    6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Enhance IBM SQL Services to use better "list" parameter parsing

    I’d like to request an enhancement to IBM i SQL Services to improve flexibility when passing multiple values to parameters that accept lists. Currently, the following syntax does not work: table(qsys2.active_job_info(subsystem_list_filter=>'QIN...
    10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

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