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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 27, 2022

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Obscure the RUNSQL and RUNSQLSTM Workfile names in QTEMP

When using RUNSQLSTM in CL, a source file is created in QTEMP with the name QSQLSRC.
Users with QTEMP on their library lists now have a "magically appeared" file on their library list that may cause corruption of tasks that previously ran normally.
This request is to use an obscured source file name in QTEMP if need by IBM i provided commands OR clean them up once the command completes OR provide a parameter with a default that can be changed by the customer that deletes said files from QTEMP once the command completes.


Use Case:

As mentioned, If using SQL and storing SQL in QSQLSRC then using RUNSQLSTM on one file with SRCFILE(*LIBL/QSQLSRC) MBR(PICKLES).
You run RUNSQSTM it processings the member named PICKLES and in doing so, creates a source named QSQLSRC in the QTEMP library WITH a member named PICKLES.
If that source member is needed again for other purposes in that same jobstream, the SRCFILE(*LIBL/QSQLSRC) MBR(PICKLES) will select the QTEMP version instead of the one that was first on the library list, causing a failure of the process.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 21, 2022

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

    Reworking the file names that are used for creating SQL routines is not a simple task. The file names are recognized and relied upon by IBM i code and by some third party and customer applications. These files in QTEMP have been used since V4R2 (25 years ago) when SQL procedures were introduced and this is the first time anyone on the database team has heard this concern.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 17, 2022

    I think maybe whomever is "CAAC" needs to re-read this request. I have no idea how someone could think that providing a CL Command Generated Name in QTEMP named QSQLSRC and a request asking that it be obscured would impact "many processes that write to QTEMP".

    How about IBM create a file named QRPGLESRC in QTEMP whenever you compile an RPG program? Would that cause you any issues? That is effectively what happens when using RUNSQLSTM in a CL program or interactively. A new QSQLSRC is generated in QTEMP and left behind when the RUNSQLSTM ends. So in that respect, yes, whomever owns the RUNSQLSTM neeeds to do proper clean up, but they do not.

  • Guest
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    |     Mar 15, 2022

    The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM not implement this request. The developer needs to do his/her own clean-up in QTEMP. This sounds like it would change many processes that write to QTEMP.

    Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key 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.

    For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac

    Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager

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