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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Languages - RPG
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 22, 2019

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Enable Retrieval of SQL constraint violation error information in RPG program

Current RPG support requires programmers to use IBM i APIs plus considerable coding to determine what constraint has caused an error. For example, when using an SQL insert on table, where a check or foreign key constraint is used, a violation of the constraint doesn't readily provide sufficient information to notify the user in the program. A function or operation to immediately return the name of the constraint, would be ideal.


Use Case:

You can not easily find which DB2 constraint has caused an SQL insert, update, delete to fail. The amount of code required could be reduced if DB2 and RPG had a method to directly retrieve the name of the constraint being violated from either an SQL Communication area, a built-in function or an SQL Diagnostics area. To illustrate this issue, one might read the article(s) previously written by Paul Tuohy, to show approaches to handle constraint violations. He uses APIs, message retrieval etc. Could a new aporoach be devised To alert the programmer with SQL State and then get the constraint from a field in the SQL CA? {https://www.itjungle.com/2018/09/05/guru-handling-constraint-violations-in-rpg/}.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 27, 2021

    I suppose one could also use services such as this:
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-joblog-info-table-function
    to retrieve that information.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 17, 2020

    IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request at this time, so it is being closed.

    Regarding the EXEC SQL statements, it is not possible for RPG to provide a built-in function that would return that information. However, the name of the constraint can be found in the SQLCA and information about the constraint can be obtained by using GET DIAGNOSTICS.

    Regarding RPG native I/O statements, information about the constraint can be obtained by coding a procedure similar to that described in the referenced article https://www.itjungle.com/2018/09/05/guru-handling-constraint-violations-in-rpg/.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 16, 2020

    You can use the SQL statement GET DIAGNOSTICS CONDITION 1 :ConstraintName = CONSTRAINT_NAME to retreive the name of the violated constraint into your RPG variable ConstraintName. You'll have to execute this statement each time SQLSTT (which you test after each SQL statement, don't you ?) is in the 23xxx range.

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