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Db2 for i

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Enhance remote journaling service with restart option

The remote journaling service has no option on the STRTCPSVR or ENDTCPSVR command. This is also not an option in the new navigator to stop/start/restart the remote journaling service. In addition to no stop/start/restart options. When changing the...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

directly enter SQL-Arrays as Input Arguments for Stored Procedures

Our reporting systems calls Stored Procedues on a DB2/400 system via ODBC/JDBC. The SP receives for example one productID and then it collects the desired informations from our DB2400-tables and return it to the reporting system via a result set. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Partitioned tables increase limit partitions (more than 256 partitions)

Hello, We think that it will be useful increase actual limit of 256 partitions on a partitioned table. Our customer generates really big amount of information (Banking customer), and our estimations are that on next year he won't have enough ...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

TCP/IP Host table entries in SQL

In SQL we have theses views: QSYS2.NETSTAT_INTERFACE_INFO to get TCP/IP interfaces (CFGTCP option 1) QSYS2.NETSTAT_ROUTE_INFO to get TCP/IP routes (CFGTCP option 2) We need also a view to get TCP/IP host table entries (CFGTCP option 10).
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Create an exit point similar to QIBM_QZDA_SQL2 but for all other SQL interfaces

There is no exit point for SQL when run outside the scope of ACS RUN SQL SCRIPTS or "Access i ODBC" as it is referred to in the docs. We need the ability to monitor and do other things for all SQL statements run on the system. We have users coming...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

SQL check authority enhancement to understand level of authority

QSYS2.SQL_CHECK_Authority function in SYSTOOLS, is available to retrieve whether the current user is authorized to an object. This is good as returns 1 if authorized. However, if the business needs to know, for a file object whether user can view ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

DB2 SQL Query for rtbdskinf - prtdskinf

Hi, we are working constantly on developing applications working with SQL queries on IBM iSeries. We had a number of requests from customers for more advanced monitoring and one thing that we are missing is integrating rtbdskinf - prtdskinf type o...
about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add weakly distinct types to V7R3

Hi, Please support "weak types" as documented at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6174189 on V7R3 as well. This would be a major benefit in migrating DDS based databases with REF FLD's to SQL. Thanks,Paul Use Case: Hi, Please support "weak t...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SQL UDTF LANGUAGE SQL INCLUDE statement to support user-written C functions

When building new capability for the #IBMi platform, we use the CREATE TABLE FUNCTION and CREATE FUNCTION SQL statements with the "INLINE" statement, to pull in source code written in the C language.Today, one "block" of code is permitted per incl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration