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Db2 for i

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Implement JDBC 4 method Connection.isValid() on jt400, or jtOpen

We currently need to implement "dataSource.setConnectionTestQuery("values 1");" or something like this, to test whether the connection is valid in the connection pool, and in the JDBC 4.0 specification there is already a Connection.isValid() metho...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Extension of the reference manual "DB2 for i SQL Reference"

We have noticed that specifying a record format name when creating an SQL index always creates a derived index. In our case, access paths were therefore created twice. We were able to solve this problem by not specifying the record format name in ...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Enhance the System Limits Alerting Cadence (SQL7062) to be customizable and more frequent than once per day

The system limits alerting is very useful to notify system administrators of potentially severe issues. However, the alert message is only sent once per day, when collection services is cycled; which is typically at midnight. Cycling Collection Se...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Speed up qsys2.active_job_info -> client_ip_address

We using the UDTF active_job_info in bacth to control jobs (msgw etc). Sometimes our DNS is not responding and the UDTF active_job_info is a never ending story because this function makes a reverse DNS look up and will never finish without a reach...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

hope to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function

Customer want to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function. In UDB, they can do this by: alter table <tabname> add UPDATETIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED ALWAYS F...
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Issuing installing IBM i 7.3 Option 1 during upgrade.

My company CM First performs upgrades for customers of their IBM i OS. In reference to the PMR above we ran into an install failure of product 5770SS1 Option 1. The failure was due to a user profile storage limit when replacing the system catalog ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Delivered

RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100) fails if input record is less than 100.

RUNSQLSTM fails if SRCDTA column width is less than RUNSQLSTM MARGIN(100). Use Case: We wanted to use full statement length of QDDLSRC. 1) Copied RUNSQLSTM command to another library and changed command default to MARGIN(228). 2) CRTSRCPF QDDLSRC ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Janeth Pargas

As several of our RPG programs have a lot of Opens going on we have followed the recommendations of David Frost about lessen the number of Opens. Hitherto we have identified the program VB1002 as the one causing most opens. We have lessen the numb...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Enhancements to QDBSRV jobs

When the QDBSRV jobs are hours behind (have a large amount of requests to process) a rename of a library can take hours because a flush request is done to make sure all work for the QDBSRV jobs and IASP QDBSRV jobs are complete. Refer to PMR 20228...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Is there a way to change QSQSVCDMP not to use QSYSPRT file

This is regarding a request we got from customer about routing of files QSQSVCDMP to outqueue QEZDEBUG,Issue description: Is it possible to redirect QSQSVCDMP to QEZDEBUG outq, It is currently directed directly to user outq and is printed. Many fi...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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