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Db2 for i

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Backport IFS source support for CRTPF & CRTDSPF to 7,2

Please backport the changes to CRTPF & CRTDSPF to support storing source in the IFS to 7.2. Use Case: From the description of SI66797: APAR Error Description / Circumvention -----------------------------------------------CL compiler does not s...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSTOOLS.CHECK_SYSROUTINE & CHECK_SYSCST

Enhance SYSTOOLS.CHECK_SYSROUTINE & CHECK_SYSCST to include a "remote schema" parameter. Use Case: Allow easy comparison of SQL objects in test schemas & multi-tenant environments.
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

File journals

When upgrading from V6R1 to V7R1 we are no longer able to associate journal receivers with the journal after making file changes. We never had an issue until the upgrade to V7R1 and we have made numerous file changes without issues on V6R1. Techni...
over 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Support derived keys on field procs

System: Customer Service Maintenance Actor: User needing a previously available feature. Description: Hiper group PTF SI39169, released on 04/21/2010, added a constraint that restricted the creation of logical files with derived keys (functions su...
almost 9 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Allow manually deleting DB2 temporary indexes

Now that we have QSYS2.MTI_INFO and its visibility into DB2 temporary indexes, we are trying to clean them up and manage them better. We only IPL every 3 to 4 months. We created permanent indexes to replace a lot of temporary indexes, but they app...
12 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Provide Db2 table / SQL Service to provide information on changed objects as seen in Memo to Users for new OS release.

For each new release we review the list of changes made to APIs, SQL Services, Exit Points and Commands as recorded in the Memo to Users and then manually review these to see if our software uses any of these. For those that are used we then need ...
13 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

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")
14 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Allow COALESCE to provide automatic CAST

I have this line in a CREATE VIEW statement: coalesce(va.vaaddress1, '?Unknown') as vaaddress1, When the view is accessed using SQL embedded in ILEPRPG, the SQLSTATE becomes 01004. VAADDRESS1 is defined in a SQL TABLE as CHAR(40). It would save a ...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Moving old data from production tables to historic tables in another library

In an active production system such as we have being in a 24 hour service financial environment, we have an issue with old data that exists in many of our database tables. Every second new data is being recorded in this tables and old the old data...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Not under consideration

Allow Request Body (request-message) on HTTP_DELETE* functions

I have a third party delete method API I am trying to call with HTTP_DELETE_VERBOSE. This API has parameters that I need to pass in a Request BODY (request-message), however, HTTP_DELETE* functions do not have a parameter in which to pass this req...
3 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

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