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Db2 for i

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Add USRDFNDTA to OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES

In our ERP different informations are stored within the USRDFNDTA each spooled file. Like Mailaccount, Address and so on.Now i want to add some new feutures and at that point i would need the field USRDFNDTA in the SQL UDTF OUTPUT_QUEUE_ENTRIES. U...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Add special authority to CHANGE_USER_PROFILE function

Please add the ability to add or remove special authorities via the change user profiles sql function. Use Case: From a security perspective, if you have too many users that have allobj authority and you need to mass remove that special authority,...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code

When consuming web services using SYSTOOLS HTTP functions it would be important to have the ability to read payloads when the web service is returning an error HTTP status code like 422 Unprocessable Entity.The web apis served by IBMi are already ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Delivered

Allow triggers to fire on records updated or deleted by Referential Integrity CASCADEs

Currently, when a dependent table record is deleted or updated because of a referential integrity CASCADE caused by the delete or update on a parent table, triggers do not fire on that dependent table. Please allow an option to fire off triggers o...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Replace trigger while active

When there's a need to replace a high level language trigger, an exclusive lock is required to the program object. In a 24/7 system this is almost impossible what makes the use of triggers a no-go. Programs in use (apart from triggers) can be repl...
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Automated Plan Cache Management

Currently the option is available to delete a plan from the Plan Cache. IBM i ACS SQL Performance Center allows you to look at the SQL statement currently in the Plan Cache and allows you to delete a Plan. We would like to have the option to do th...
about 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

Improve CRTSQL* Error Reporting

Changing our software to exploit Teraspace we encountered a build failure where the error message reported was: Compile option TERASPACE specified twice. We were using the CRTSQLCI command and specified TERASPACE only once via the COMPILEOPT param...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Delivered

Generate/consume JSON boolean in DB2 JSON_ functions

It would be useful to have the ability to generate/consume the JSON boolean type in the JSON_TABLE and JSON_OBJECT functions.Since SQL does not have a boolean data type, there is no direct casting to the JSON boolean.I suggest providing two "sub" ...
about 7 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 6 Delivered

ILE SQL Precompiler commands like CRTSQLRPGLE Parameter DBGVIEW should support more than just the Values *NONE and *SOURCE

As of today it is only possible to either request DBGVIEW(*NONE) or DBGVIEW(*SOURCE) when precompiling ILE SQL programs.Using *SOURCE is actually passed as *ALL to the backend compiler, which causes all possible debug views to be generated. Usuall...
almost 8 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 4 Delivered

Allow multiple Recipients in the send email function

Absolutely love that we now have send email, however the usability would grow if we could email multiple recipients. suggestion would be to have recipients septerated with a semi colon or comma.
over 1 year ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

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