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Db2 for i

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Allow more row value comparisons

Often old tables have two separate columns for a timestamp, a decimal date and time column instead of a single timestamp column. When querying those tables, it would be great if row-value-expressions could not only be compared for equality but als...
2 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Using IBM I ACS ( Access Client Solutions ) Add more Helpful Hints in Visual Explain by Color Coding deficiencies

When using Visual Explain in IBM ACS to look at query performance. When using the Side Panel with Atrributes and Values, can ACS Highlight worrisome results. For Example we learned that Percent Selectivity is a good metric to highlight. Can ACS hi...
11 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in ...
21 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 0 Submitted

Returning a JSON in a string (RPG FREE) without back slash for an API REST

When i use JSON_OBJECT into a VARCHAR who is returning from an API rest the values of KEY contains back slash before quotation marks. When i use a DS the result is OK but if i want to use JSON SQL functions i have the above problem. Is it possible...
25 days ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Submitted

UUID datatype for IBMi

A UUID is a U niversally U nique Id entifier, meaning that these identifiers are unique over your whole DB; even better unique" across space and time". UUID's are stored in 128bit format and follow a standarized format ( rfc4122 ) This makes the t...
about 2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Split DBOpen exit point in new format

DBOpen Exit Point takes care of ANY database access, regardless what type. This results in performance problems. Severals performance tests show that from 100% DBOpen Acess apx. 95%-99% are coming from Native I/Os. This is from exit point technolo...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Future consideration

Table that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry type descriptions

It would be useful to have a table, if one does not already exist, that contains the QAUDJRN journal entry descriptions. This would be very useful to be able to use to get the description using a join to the AUDIT_JOURNAL_xx & DISPLAY_JOURNAL....
6 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 7 Future consideration

BASH as a SQL service ( SQL scalar function)

Lots of great tooling is available in PASE via bash. It would be appreciated if commands could be executed using a "user defined function" returning a CLOB for the stdout. An implementation can be found here. https://github.com/NielsLiisberg/sql-o...
2 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 1 Future consideration

Allow reuse of QSQSVR prestart jobs for multithread jobs running embedded SQL in server mode

Please allow release of QSQSVR prestart jobs back to the pool upon thread termination for embedded SQL (SQLRPGLE) running in server mode in multithread capable jobs. Currently, when a multithreaded job running in server mode (set by QWTCHGJB) spaw...
5 months ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

Add command SQL service

The idea is based on the creation of a command-related SQL service. This service must return some information about the commands such as the program, source, and various parameters. In addition, it would be very important that it returns the defau...
about 1 month ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 2 Future consideration

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