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Remove permissions from catalog files

Here is a reproducible example Signon on QSECOFR or a profil with *secadm create a table CREATE TABLE LIB.CLIENTBQ ( NUMERO DEC ( 5) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, NOM CHAR ( 20) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, IBAN CHAR ( 14) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT) remove public ...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add a special register in SQL triggers to get the schema of the underlying table, at any point, not just in error handlers

In SQL Db2 for i, we would need the SQL triggers to provide a simple way to know the schema of the underlying SQL table of each trigger. It is important to have this data, especially when using library lists, because sometimes we need to pass this...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

OVERRIDE_INFO for any job

At present OVERRIDE_INFO will only return results for the current job. Please allow it to return the same information for any job passed to it. It could be a Table function of the current view. Pass to it a fully qualified job name, or '*' for the...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Change Data Capture (CDC) support in Db2 for i

We have a requirement to stream data in realtime from Db2 for i to other consumers for AI, data warehouse and other systems. I'm aware there are third party products available like Debezium, Fivetran and others, and you can always roll your own. H...
4 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Under review

Query a specific JVM via QSYS2.JVM_INFO

To automate the monitoring of JVMs, one approach is to utilize QSYS2.JVM_INFO like this: SELECT * from TABLE(QSYS2.JVM_INFO(WAIT_TIME => 1)) WHERE JOB_NAME = '791185/JOBUSER/JOBNAME' Unfortunately, to get the values of a single JVM, this call m...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 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
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

Allow the evaluation of RPG expressions as "pseudo host variables" in EXEC SQL statements

The idea is, to allow the evaluation of RPG expressions (including the call of %BIFs and procedures) inside an EXEC SQL statement as "pseudo-host-variables". The syntax could be like that: exec sql select count(*) into :myCounter from mytable w...
7 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

DISPLAY_JOURNAL and excluded access objects

DISPLAY_JOURNAL fails when I choose to use *ALLFILE for OBJECT_NAME if it attempts to display the journal details for a file I do not have access to view. Either make DISPLAY_JOURNAL always auto skip the process for files user has not access and r...
20 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

New compile option for embedded SQL allowing to raise SQL errors as RPG errors

Something like EXEC SQL SET OPTION SQLERRHANDLING = *EXCEPTION; that would allow a user to trap exceptions like this: monitor; EXEC SQL SELECT * FROM TABEL_THAT_DOES_NOT_EXISTS; on-excp [Whatevere error code for SQL error]; //Do something endmon;
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under 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...
12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration