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Db2 for i

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Provide Db2i Service For Managing Certificates

Recently our SSL certificates expired and upon raising a support ticket with IBM our only solution was to delete everything and start from scratch again. No message was issued by the OS to inform us that certificates were due to expire. The soluti...
over 2 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Add NSLOOKUP type SQL service

I would like a service like those athttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=optimization-i-servicesThis service would allow me to doSELECT * FROM QSYS2.NSLOOKUP('www.mycorp.com', 'dns.google.com');I would also like it to not be dependent on having...
about 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Additional Information From SYSCOLUMNS

The output provided by querying SYSCOLUMNS is missing key information that can only be retrieved via API calls run directly on the IBM i. For example, the format of date / time columns is not present, and there may be others. The information retur...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

User profile maintenance function

Can we have a function that we can maintain user profiles using SQL. For example: call systools.update_user_profiles(profile = > 'MARINATEST', enabled = > '*YES', password => 'Testing@@123' ) Or I can just disable the profile. call systoo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Escape the delimiter when using systools.split

Enhance the systools.split function to escape the delimiter. Use Case: systools.split is an awesome function. The only limitation is that we are not able to escape any possible delimiters in the data we are splitting. For Example, if I run SELECT ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF enhancement request

DISPLAY_JOURNAL UDTF currently accepts library and object as parameters and also if object name is not specified, it defaults to "ALL" for the library. We would like to request for an enhancement where this UDTF can accept a list of objects as par...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

SQL alter table and loss of data

By using SQL as DDL we often run scripts that alter table layouts and hit the "CPA32B2 - Change of file X may cause data to be lost. (C I)" error. On green screen this question can be answered, however on database connections this requires changin...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Add message key to tabel function JOBLOG_INFO

Add a column with the message key to the table function JOBLOG_INFO(). This way you can easily remove unwanted messages from the joblog. Use Case: To make the joblog more readable we remove the unwanted messages. This reduces the time the support ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Requesting IBM i Service to return message text

Requesting IBM i Service to return message file text. values MESSAGE_FILE_TEXT(MESSAGE_NUMBER,MESSAGE_FILE,MESSAGE_FILE_LIBRARY,MESSAGE_DATA,'*FIRST')would return the first level message text. For a comparison seeRTVMSG MSGID(&MSGID) MSGF(&...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

expose DSPNETA via IBM i SQL UDTF

please add an SQL UDTF to expose the data in the DSPNETA command. Use Case: we have a need to "get at" some of the data in the RTVNETA command, ie CPNAME and having a system UDTF would make lots of programming tasks easier.
about 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

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