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Db2 for i

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    BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

    Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

    Add parameter to RSTLIB / RSTOBJ commands to restore table(s) without data

    Please consider adding a parameter to the RSTLIB and RSTOBJ commands to allow restore of DB2 tables / PF's without data (rows). It would be great to be able to restore libraries or objects without getting the data onto the system. Use case 1: We h...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

    DSPPGMREF with SQL

    In SQL Services create a view or UDF, who have the same information as the CL command DSPPGMREF Use Case: get the list of programs that use a file ...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Future consideration

    Add ISO 8601 timestamp format.

    ISO 8601 format shows:2019-07-17T15:21:38Z2019-07-17T15:21:38+01:00T = seperator between date and timeZ = Zulu time+01:00 is Zulu + 1 hour Use Case: Trying to do data interchange with other systems.
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 10 Future consideration

    See progress of RGZPFM

    When you do a RGZPFM can we see the progress in the joblog? or somewhere we could see how much progress is being made. This will help gauging how long a reorg will take.
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

    UUID datatype for IBMi

    A UUID is a U niversally U nique Id entifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format ( rfc4122 ) This makes the t...
    12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

    Allow more than 1 level of qualified datastructures in SQLRPGLE

    We get more and more embedded SQL code in our RPGLE sources but the compiler still only supports 1 level of qualified data structures. This is such a pain. See Use case for example. More practical examples are joins where you want to use the exter...
    over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

    Create a service for RMTOUTQs or *LAN Printer Device Descriptions

    Ref IBM Doc ID 640063 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/getting-list-all-tcpip-addresses-used-rmtoutqs-or-lan-printer-device-descriptions Getting a List of All TCP/IP Addresses Used in RMTOUTQs or *LAN Printer Device Descriptions Is there a servic...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

    Allow a "FOR SYSTEM NAME" for CREATE ALIAS

    DevOps providers want to be able to fallback and restore implementation objects of SQL objects. CREATE ALIAS creates a *FILE DDMF in the library but we are not able to control the implementation name. This requires a lot of processing to make sure...
    5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 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 ...
    9 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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