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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 11, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Provide functionality to query RFE information via IBM i Service

Provide an IBM i Service that allows users to query the RFE database from their IBM i server.

All details shown on the website / available when downloaded, should be returned; including comments that could be "concatenated" into a (DB)CLOB column.

Where an RFE has been delivered the relevant PTF information should also be provided, for all supported releases. This would allow for further processing to "automatically" download the solution.


Use Case:

Manually having to login to the RFE web page and download current information of submitted RFEs is tedious and the Excel spreadsheet returns the dates in MM/DD/YYYY format; not the most user friendly of date formats if sorting is required and confusing for those outside of the USA where a date looks like it is either in the future or invalid!

An IBM i / Db2i service would be easier to use / query / download data etc.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 24, 2021

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

    While we believe this is an interesting idea, the infrastructure to tie RFEs to the corresponding PTFs would be difficult to implement and maintain. It would be possible to return the existing RFE information through a service, but due to the high number of other requests for new/enhanced services, it is unlikely that this service would be developed any time soon.

    As a result of this request, we have asked for the addition of a JSON feed to access the RFE information. We believe this would be a more programmer-friendly interface for accessing RFEs. We will update this RFE when we have information on this related enhancement.

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