IBM Power Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Power Systems products, including IBM i. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas

  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Add a new idea Subscribe
Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 23, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add NSLOOKUP type SQL service

I would like a service like those at
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=optimization-i-services
This service would allow me to do
SELECT * FROM QSYS2.NSLOOKUP('www.mycorp.com', 'dns.google.com');
I would also like it to not be dependent on having the following installed:
Resource
ID Option Feature Description
5770SS1 31 5050 Domain Name System
Having this product installed causes us to fail audits from IBM as the bind level is always way behind.
I tried a RFE to unbundle NSLOOKUP from that product and IBM rejected it.


Use Case:

I tried various workarounds such as
values systools.httpgetclob('https://dns.google.com/query?name=dekko.com','');
but I could not find a website which would return the IP address in the clob.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 3, 2022
    IBM believes that the request described has been solved and is available with IBM i 7.5, and with DB PTF Groups IBM i 7.4 SF99704 Level 20 and IBM i 7.3 SF99703 Level 28.

    The QSYS2.DNS_LOOKUP table function has been introduced to return IP address information for a hostname without requiring option 31.

    For a description of this change, see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6572991
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 12, 2021

    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.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 26, 2021

    Why not write this yourself... you can use the gethostbyname() API.

0 MERGED

TCPIP_INFO view does not return server address when ran from a server application

Merged
I am using the service at:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=services-tcpip-info-viewWorks ok from a client application, such as iACS Run SQL Scripts. However it doesn't return a server address when ran from something on the server such as th...
over 3 years ago in IBM i / Db2 for i 3 Delivered

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.