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My votes: Db2 for i

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    Port IBM Db2's Vector AI to IBM i Db2

    Vector search is popular in the databasing community. It's there on MongoDB Atlas and others, including Db2 Version 12 Mod Pack 2 (June 2025) for LUW. (Meant to put this at "Medium")
    6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    COBOL SQL Precompiler able to use Host Variables using LIKE and SQL commands allowed in Copybooks

    Hi Jeff, Development reviewed the information you sent in and provided the following feedback: Thanks for providing examples to illustrate your questions. Unfortunately, both of the examples provided are not supported by the SQL COBOL precompiler....
    6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    SQL view for Netserver info

    With the newer OS releases for IBM i there have been views created to look at many of the components of the OS. It would be nice if there was a view to look at netserver info. Like netserver attributes, as well as file shares on the system. Curren...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    Full support of Field Reference File (FRF) in SQL

    When creating tables via SQL it is not possible to use the concept of a FRF to define fields in a consistent way and especially query the catalogs later on to find the origin of a field. A workaround is a CREATE TABLE AS however this doesn't suppo...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    add a new audit field to the SQL fields

    I would like to be able to get the program name that updated/inserted a row in SQL in a generated always field. Today we can add the job, user, timestamp, ... automatically but not the name of the program. It would be more complete if we could add...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

    Enhance Omnifind product or integrate it with base db2 for i

    OMNIFIND is a text search product that allows IBM i users to search unstructured text stored in a column of a DB2 for i table. The text stored in the column can be either simple character text, an XML document, or any of several different types of...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Resolve object references for embedded SQL at compile time

    Product: Change Management Our change management application allows us to track changes, automate our deployment and development process, and perform impact analysis, all of which give us better controls and reduce risk in our software development...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Not under consideration

    Eliminate the Propagation of READS SQL DATA in Caller Functions in SQL

    When creating User Defined Table functions in SQL, the CONTAINS SQL, READS SQL DATA and MODIFIES SQL DATA statements are currently propagated up the food chain. This means if a simple function calls another function, that called function's attribu...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Change SPOOLED_FILE_DATA so *SCS spooled files with ICGDTA(*YES) can be search

    I wrote a routine to allow me to present spooled files in VS Code and open them into an edit tab, I can also download the spooled file. These actions use CPYTOSPLF. I also wrote a routine that uses SPOOLED_FILE_DATA but some *SCS reports are not a...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Audit which CL commands was executed using the QCMDEXC Procedure or scalar function.

    Today if you execute a CL command inside of a QCMDEXC scalar function or QCMDEXC procedure, they are not audited. It would be extreamly helpful especially from a security perspective to be able to audit the commands that are executed that way.
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

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