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My votes: Db2 for i

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    RGZPFM option MBR(*ALL )

    Enable the use *ALL on option MBR for the RGZPFM command for a hash partitioned table.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under 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

    Provide a QCMDEXC-Likc Stored Proc that uses CONTAINS SQL

    Provide an NEW SQL Stored Procedure for QCMDEXC or QCAPCMD that is set to CONTAINS SQL instead of MODIFIEDS SQL DATA. Use Case: When creating user-written SQL Functions that only contain SQL statements or perhaps READS SQL DATA, the use of QCMDEXC...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

    Improve the SET DESCRIPTOR statement

    The usage of the SET DESCRIPTOR statement is currently complex, tedious and error prone, this leads to hard to maintain code and the usage of anti patterns like user supplied strings directly inserted into dynamic SQL or complex case statements in...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Include OBJATTRIBUTE in resultSet from OBJECT_STATISTICS when object name is *ALLSIMPLE

    If possible and without impacting performance, please include the OBJATTRIBUTE column with the results when OBJECT_STATISTICS is generating the fast list of objects due to *ALLSIMPLE being specified on the 3rd (object name) parameter. Use Case: Ne...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Journal entry needed when statistics removed from file

    During upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 we got serious performance degradation for some SQL queries. Trying to improve performance we request and remove some file statistics on the source (production) system. It help for some issues. Unfortunately on the t...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    IBM DB2 Connect 11.5 VSAI (Visual Studio Addin) for VS 2019 using deprecated API's

    IBM DB2 Connect 11.5 VSAI (Visual Studio Addin) for VS 2019 using deprecated API's (synchronous loading apis). This needs to be updated for VS 2019 to use Asynchronous loading to remove the warning notices everytime you launch Visual Studio 2019. ...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    CHGPF with SRCFILE option causes all Field Procedures to decrypt all the data encrypted in the file

    when a CHGPF with SRCFILE option is ran over a Physical file with a Field Procedure on one or more fields the data is automatically decrypted to the the full value. Use Case: When file XFILE contains a field SOCIAL that has a field procedure on it...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    JSON Store access with .Net API

    You created the JSON Store Technology for DB2 for i. Therefore you have the Command Line Processor, Java API and SQL User Defined Functions. What is missing is a .Net API. Can you please insert that too? Use Case: More and More .Net Backend Applic...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    Add Program/Library and Job to Index Advised Table

    The index advised table (and the according Navigator interfaces) should be enhanced by adding the (last) program and job identification that caused that specific index advise to be added/updated. Use Case: In order to perform general application p...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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