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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Core OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 19, 2019

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Provide a Real Retrieve Identity of Last SPOOLED File API

The QSPRILSP API was useful to retrieve the last spool file created in a job. Today, however, it has been compromised and returns the last spooled file in the thread in which the API runs, not the last SPOOLED file for the job for which it was originally intended. For example, if no SPOOLED file is created in the current thread but one was created in the main job/thread, the QSPRILSP returns nothing.
Please provide a new API that does what we want, returns the LAST SPOOLED FILE for the JOB, regardless of the thread in which the API is run or the thread in which the SPOOLED file is created.


Use Case:

Using SQL we created a UDTF to return the information from the QSPRILSP API. However, since SQL is multi-threaded, and UDTF nearly always run in their own thread, the UDTF always returns nothing.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 1, 2020

    The QSPRILSP API returns the last spooled file created in the thread the API is called in. But when you put it in a UDTF, SQL may call it from a secondary thread. The last spooled file is stored in the thread, not the job. It would be problematic for the API to search the thread control blocks for all threads in the job, some of which may have already ended, and the performance would be impacted. For these reasons we are not planning to implement this change.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 24, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Core OS
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Application Development
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

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