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Db2 for i

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Format of header informations with QSYS.HTTP_*_VERBOSE functions

The RFE would be to add an option to the HTTP functions so that the verbose function would only return the header information as quoted JSON strings. Use Case: currently, it is impossible to differentiate between the following headers :ETag: 12345...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Add support for *LAST in CREATE ALIAS

CREATE ALIAS command allows to create aliases for a specific MEMBER of a physical table on IBM i, but the alias has to be explicitly named. Many applications add members periodically and start filling rows in the last member. Having the ability of...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Delivered

SYSDISKSTAT: Add percent busy

Disks are getting hammered on one system on rare occasion. IBM denies any culpability. Therefore I need way to know when to IPL system when the percent busy of the disks gets out of hand.Please add percent busy to sysdiskstat service Use Case: Mon...
over 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Check the variable declaration when compiling the SQL Stored Procedure

There is a problem that variable declaration check is not performed when compiling (creating) a stored procedure, which causes an error in execution. --------------------------------------- (Example 1)IF SQLCODE = 100 THENSET O_MSG = '';ELSESET O_...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES enhancement

With OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES, we have SIZE and PAGES however we don't have RECORDS which would correspond to the MAXRCDS setting on the CRTPRTF and CHGPRTF commands. Can a RECORDS column value be added to the View & UDTF? Use Case: Select * from ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info?

Can you please add Job_type to Get_Job_Info? Use Case: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1107217/1107217-6238504156156436481?midToken=AQE1P4HH_NHymA&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-group_discussions-24-discussion~subject&trkEmail=eml-b2_an...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Enhance CMPPFM command

We currently use the CMPPFM command to provide an initial "sanity check" that data is replicated via our software correctly. DB2 tables have used this without issue until we had a requirement to support BLOB column types where the CMPPFM command f...
about 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Group_Ptf_Currency: Also show those at "Apply at Next IPL"

I am trying to find out what group PTF's I need to order so I ran:SELECT * FROM SYSTOOLS.GROUP_PTF_CURRENCY ORDER BY ptf_group_level_available - ptf_group_level_installed DESC; and I get:PTF_GROUP_CURRENCY PTF_GROUP_ID PTF_GROUP_TITLE ...INSTALLED...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

enhance the qsys2.journal_info view to return info for all recievers attached to a journal

we have a need to be able to find all "orphaned" journal receivers.
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Allow Replace Table functionality for Temporal Tables

It would be really great to be able to use the "Create or Replace Table" with Temporal/History tables. In order to modify these tables once in production, we'll need to maintain a list of alter statements to support any changes to be applied to th...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered