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Db2 for i

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    Support subselect and subquery in the SQL join-condition

    Please provide an extended JOIN syntax to support EXISTS (subquery) or IN (subquery) in the join condition. This will facilitate JOINS where NULL values are involved and should be kept. for example: with p(rel1id, a1, a2, a3, x) as ( values (1, 'y...
    almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

    SQL Update using Common Table Expresions

    Currently an UPDATE statement that attempts to update a field with the selected value from a Common table expression causes an SQLCODE -199 with SQLSTATE 42601: "Illegal use of KeyWord UPDATE. Token ( SELECT VALUES was expected" --or something sim...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    System i native support for MS-SQL Server Connection

    Native Support for System i to connect to MS-SQL Server using the remote Database entry (ADDRDBDIRE).Connection should support SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT to provide a possibility for data exchange.There are exists a lot of open souce tools which works...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Not under consideration

    Add variable support on CONNECT statement within SPL

    Add variable support for CONNECT statement in SPL. Use Case: CREATE or replace PROCEDURE BACKUP_STATUS LANGUAGE SQL MODIFIES SQL DATA P1: BEGIN DECLARE COMMAND CHAR(200); -- Ensure this is large enough. DECLARE V_SYSTEM_NAME CHAR(25); FOR V1 AS C1...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

    Allow variable name as part of three part naming

    Allow variable name as part of three part naming. Use Case: FOR V1 AS C1 CURSOR FOR select x.* from table( values('RACK1HST'), ('GDWEB'), ('GDIHQ1'), ('GDISYS1'), ('MAIL1'), ('RACK2HST'), ('GDWEB2'), ('GDIHQ2'), ('GDISYS2'), ('MAILTWO'), ('RACK3HS...
    about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 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

    Make IBM Data Studio work Better with SQL Source in IBM i Source Files

    IBM Data Studio does not play smoothly with SQL source that lives on IBM i in source files/members. We 18 developers would like this tool to work better with source that lives in source files on the IBM i. We use this tool for IBM i but our workfl...
    about 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

    Extend the JOB_LOCK_INFO UDTF to provide the current awaited time

    Please extend the JOB_LOCK_INFO UDTF to also provide the current wait duration for pending locks. This would enable easier automatic detection of erroneous locks and hanging jobs.
    about 3 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

    improve SYSTOOLS.GENERATE_SPREADSHEET to be able to get back the generated as blob

    As an alternative to save file to ifs, be able to get the resulting file as a blob. Would make serving the result on the web easier.
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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