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Db2 for i

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Port IBM Db2's Vector AI to IBM i Db2

Vector search is popular in the databasing community. It's there on MongoDB Atlas and others, including Db2 Version 12 Mod Pack 2 (June 2025) for LUW. (Meant to put this at "Medium")
8 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

please add function "odd" and "even"

would be nice to have a function returning whether a number is odd (function odd) and whether a number is even (function even). I know it can be done with mod(field, 2) but for documentation purpose it is better to read odd(field) or even(field) i...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Add Applied Date to PTF Group Currency Service

IBM i 7.6 included an enhancement to DSPPTFGRP command to show the date the PTF Group was applied. Please add this Applied Date to the IBM PTF Group Service.
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Table that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry type descriptions

It would be useful to have a table, if one does not already exist, that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry descriptions. This would be very useful to be able to use to get the description using a join to the AUDIT_JOURNAL_xx & DISPLAY_JOURNAL....
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

Last Updated Date for Server Firmware

Last server firmware upgrade date is not reflected when we use this command, DSPFMWSTS. However it is very beneficial to know when the last update/upgrade was performed by seeing this installation date next to the current level of firmware. We do ...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Improve reorganize while active

the reorganize while active mechaniism is a very interesting mechanism and allows you to reorganize files under journal allowing you to clean up many deleted records without closing applications and services. However, the mechanism does not allow...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Point SQL messages to the place where they originated

When we see a message in the log like SQL0501 - Cursor xxx not open, and drill down to the details to find where the message comes from we see internal SQL references and not our program name and statement. This makes it hard to debug and fix. Ple...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Functionality already exists

Allow reuse of QSQSVR prestart jobs for multithread jobs running embedded SQL in server mode

Please allow release of QSQSVR prestart jobs back to the pool upon thread termination for embedded SQL (SQLRPGLE) running in server mode in multithread capable jobs. Currently, when a multithreaded job running in server mode (set by QWTCHGJB) spaw...
9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

add a field in QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO that shows the "P- group" for the listed licensed program product.

There currently exists a field "PROCESSOR_GROUP" in the SQL view QSYS2.LICENSE_INFO, which is the processor group for the server the software is currently installed. the new field should more closely align with the column "PROCESSOR" in the output...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Support ISO 8601 Date-Time Format in VARCHAR_FORMAT and TIMESTAMP() patterns

This may be a dup of an 4 or 5 year old request, but please add native support for the ISO 8601 date-time format in Db2 for i. This includes: 1. Parsing and Formatting: Built-in SQL functions to convert between ISO 8601 and existing Db2 date/time ...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration