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Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
IBM i database team
IBM Power Systems Development
I've done most of the ones IBM hasn't myself. It is available in #SQLTools.
I doubt they're going to do the RETRIEVE APIs ever, so I've provided those and many, many others as well... and all on V7R2
But not this one. :)
/rant on
Are we really going to ask IBM to write SQL functions for the more than thousands of API's that exist ?
To me this sounds like waste of time and resources... I would recommend that IBM invests these resources in questions that provide real added value (ie. that don't exist today or for which no API is available or other alternative is available).
I feel really bad when other RFE's related to for example security don't get fixed but that SQL function thirty-seven is being provided because people are to lazy (either in terms of knowledge of money hiring a developer) to write a wrapper around the API.