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The new QSYS2.SAVE_FILE_INFO view returns information about save files.
The new QSYS2.SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS view and QSYS2.SAVE_FILE_OBJECTS table function return information about objects within a save file.
You can read about it on new fact pages here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6982049
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6982051
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6982053
And in IBM Documentation here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=services-save-file-info-view
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=services-save-file-objects-view
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.5?topic=services-save-file-objects-table-function
Db2 for i development team
IBM Power Systems Development
I think this service will be valuable because it will allow me to query every save file on the system in one command. This will allow me to search all save files on the system in every user library to see if anyone has saved confidential data. I find it comparable to https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-message-file-data-view
To do this with APIs I would have to use multiple. One to find every save file on the system and another one to retrieve the contents. While patterning it after the MESSAGE_FILE_DATA view makes it so much easier.
I created such a SQL table function called Savefile_Info back in 2019. It is open source and available for any IBM i version supporting the QSRLSAVF API.
You can find it here: https://bitbucket.org/christianjorgensen/sql-udtf-savefile_info/src/master/
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Christian
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 MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
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
In my humble opinion having an API or other command which does the same is not a good reason not to deliver a DB2 for i service. Based on what is available it has never be the case. The command "DSPUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(MYLIB/MYFILE)" is in a way similar to what the DB2 i service called " QSYS2.USER_INFO" delivers.
Having the option to use SQL instead of an API is more user friendly and makes it available on every IBM i LPAR. This is for me the reason not to let everyone walk the API road. SQL is easy, an API is not ;-)
Please feel 100 % free to disagree.
Hi,
I agree with Rudi that these things can be easily developed by anyone using the existing API's, and if you need an SQL interface on it with the combination of an SQL UDTF. More information on creating these can be found at https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/systems/articles/i-power-of-udtf/
It would be a total waste of valuable IBM resources to ask them to write an SQL function for every single API that exists (which are thousands). Instead I hope IBM invests its resources in things that we can't develop ourselves.
Hello Mats,
IBM has an API for this "List Save File (QSRLSAVF) API" => https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/apis/qsrlsavf.htm.
This API offers several formats, we seen this used this in the past for creating the command WRKSAVFOBJ.
I wonder which of the offered formats, fulfils your requirement the best?