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Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 5, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

db2 for service to list file members (like QUSLMBR)

Processing file members with SQL is a pain. We should at least have db2 for i service to find out what members actually exist. Pretty much like the QUSLMBR API .


Use Case:

Process perfomance data using SQL. All tables in QPFRDATA are multimember tables. But the same applies to normal business processing where multimember files still exist.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 9, 2021

    IBM believes that the request described has been solved.

    The QSYS2.SYSPARTITIONSTAT catalog view returns information about members.

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/db2/rbafzcatsyspstat.htm

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 8, 2021

    Lab doesn't like to develop for the old Member technology but they have to consider that IBM products such as Collection Services uses members and users want to query Collection Services tables using SQL. Creating Aliases each time a new collection service is restarted doesn't seem to be practical.

    Thanks

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 8, 2021

    Please close the call.

    The QSYS2.SYSPARTITIONSTAT view is a good alternative. Thanks KristerK.

  • Guest
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    |     Feb 7, 2021

    Can we please stop requesting an SQL function for every of the 5000 API's that exist on the system ?

    I hope we have some basic programming experience to handle these things on our own.

    I hope IBM invests its money in things which don't exist today rather than providing an alternative method for things which already exists since day one of the OS (ie. this can easily be solved by doing a DSPFD *MBRLIST to an outfile - which you can do in SQL as well via QCMDEXC - and use SQL on that).

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 5, 2021

    This is already available in the QSYS2.SYSPARTITIONSTAT view:

    select table_partition from qsys2.syspartitionstat
    where table_schema = '' and table_name = '';

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