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SQL Plan Cache Filter option for Job

The Filters option in SQL Plan Cache has no option for entering job information like jobname and jobnumber. for analyzing the SQL Plan Cache and searching for the SQL statements initiated in that job, the searching takes much time and caused extra...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 8 Delivered

Support UTF-8 source code in SQLC precompiler

The introduction of PTF SI62604 (which gives CRTRPGMOD the 'TGTCCSID' keyword and so allows RPG and SQLRPG modules to be compiled from Unicode stream files) now allows users to convert their source code to UTF-8 and store them as stream files in t...
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

DB2 multi dimensional JSON result set

Today an SQL SELECT with JOIN result set for the Node.js database driver is returned as flat JSON rows with many column values repeated (as expected). This then requires massaging before being sent to the browser for easy consumption. You can see ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

New SQL table function to return Journal Receiver Information

Currently there is no way, except programmatically via calling the QjoRetrieveJournalInformation API and specifying KEY=1, to retrieve a list of journal receivers and information about them. Providing a SQL Table Function, or other SQL object, to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

DB2 GUID/UUID identity support

Currently identity columns are integer based, however this can cause collisions if you need to merge two tables. It would therefore be handy if you could specify... MYID UUID GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY Also functions like IDENTITY_VAL_LOCAL shou...
almost 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

Db2 dependency service

For moving forward with IT transformation from DDS to pure SQL we still need some tooling that was provide in pure DDS + RPG. With DSPPGMREF and DSPDBR in combination it was possible to build a decency graph to show the impact of a certain change ...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Delivered

Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language

You can use a new system-defined Boolean data type for use within SQL Procedural Language (SQL PL) applications that provides support for declaring and referencing the system-defined logical values: TRUE, FALSE, or NULL within compound SQL (compil...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

DB2 HTTP Consumer Functions (Verbose) are suppressing response messages if the http error code is different than 2xx

If the HTTP Response Code is 3xx or 4xx the (Verbose) HTTP Consumer Functions of DB2 /i are ignoring the response message from the service - the response header ist deliverd - but response message is NULL. Use Case: To enable the best user experie...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Let QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL also generate the system name for SQL global variable

Currently the QSYS2.GENERATE_SQL() procedure does not generate the FOR SYSTEM NAME part when it generates the source for an SQL Global Variable. When a variable is recreated based on the output of this procedure it will generate a system name, whi...
almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Allow host constant in SQL embedded.

Allow the use of a host constant like a host variable in SQL clause WHERE (and everywhere it's possible). Use Case: DCL-C ERROR 'E';DCL-C WARNING 'W'; EXEC SQL DECLARE errors NO SCROLL CURSOR FOR SELECT * FROM myLog WHERE myLog.error_type = :ERROR;
almost 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

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