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The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority Idea that is important to be addressed.
This would make the merge statement even more powerful than it is today.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Carmelita Ruvalcaba- CAAC Program Manager
@ThereseEaton
Thank you for this feedback. Really excited that this request caught your attention and I'm looking forward to seeing it implemented.
@NielsLiisberg
what you wanna do is actually already possible, just lose the parentheses after the insert statement:
insert into qtemp.test
with a as (
select 'abc' as text
from sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select * from a;
=> will work just fine
And you can actually be even shorter:
create or replace table qtemp.test as (
with a as (
select 'abc' as text
from sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select * from a
) with data on replace delete rows;
IBM will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. This request will be updated in the future if IBM implements it.
The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a HIGH priority requirement that is important to address. The CEAC believes that MERGE should support a full SELECT statement including CTEs.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
This RFE need also to address "INSERT" statements where CTE also does not work:
create or replace table qtemp.test (
text varchar(256)
);
insert into qtemp.test (
with a as (
select
'abc' as text
from sysibm.sysdummy1
)
select * from a
);
ooooh! this one I like a lot. it will give you a lot of flexibility.