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Db2 for i

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Create GenerateAndEmailSpreadsheet

With the addition of Generate Spreadsheet and Send Email both are valuable but the adoption would have quite a bit of use if we had one function that does both.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

CTE support in MERGE statement

Currently MERGE statements in DB2 for i do not support the use of CTEs inside the using clause. Use Case: Lately, I've come across the need for this funtionality several times when I had to update large amounts of records in our ERP with data gath...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

SQL Update using Common Table Expresions

Currently an UPDATE statement that attempts to update a field with the selected value from a Common table expression causes an SQLCODE -199 with SQLSTATE 42601: "Illegal use of KeyWord UPDATE. Token ( SELECT VALUES was expected" --or something sim...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

Visual explain as a SQL - IBM i service

Visual explain is a vital tool to get the information about how a SQL statement is processed and to understand the nature of SQL queries. However, it can be quite complicated to oververview complicated queries and the graph can be quite chaotic. M...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Not under consideration

Full support of Field Reference File (FRF) in SQL

When creating tables via SQL it is not possible to use the concept of a FRF to define fields in a consistent way and especially query the catalogs later on to find the origin of a field. A workaround is a CREATE TABLE AS however this doesn't suppo...
12 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Not under consideration

SQL Function to Create Spool File

Add SQL function to output query results directly to a spool file. This would be really helpful for simple ad hoc queries and eliminate the need to create an RPG program or dumping query results to an outfile and then using RUNQRY over the outfile...
10 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

Better documentation of Sqlstate behavior in IF statement

I ran into some peculiar piece of code that didn't do what I expected and decided to run a small test.The goal is to see if SqlState is being reset in an if-statement. My human brain says it shouldn't be reset in the example code below begin decl...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Functionality already exists

Implement JSON_LEN SQL scalar function (returns # of elements in JSON array)

Please implement a new SQL scalar function JSON_LEN, which returns the number of elements in a JSON array. if MyJSON contains "{"MyObj":{"MyArray":["One","Two","Three"]}}" exec sql set :NumElems = JSON_LEN(:MyJSON, '$.MyObj.MyArray'); sets NumElem...
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Future consideration

DLTF enhancement to remove dependant LF

DLTF can be instructed for special constraint handling by use of parameter RMVCST()Please add possibility to remove dependant LF with a parameter like DLTDEPLF(*YES) Use Case: Currently, dependencies need to be found with DSPDBR. Automatic file pr...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Future consideration

Db2 service WRKCFGSTS

Create a Db2 for i service that does the equivalent of the WRKCFGSTS command where I can check if a device, or range devices selected by a wildcard, is varied on or off. Use Case: Rather than use WRKCFGSTS *DEV *TAP to see if all of the tape drive...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 5 Future consideration

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