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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 15, 2019
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMI-I-1032 IBM i ACS Run SQL Scripts copy/paste column headings.

Allow copy/paste of column header fields in result window Merged

When running a SQL statement in ACS the results are displayed including the column headers. From this result window you can only copy/paste selected data, not column headers.


Use Case:

If you want to select some sql output to copy/paste into an email (for example) it would be very nice if you can copy/paste the column headers too (using CTL-C and CTL-V).


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Dec 13, 2021

    Right-click on the column headings and click on Details. There you get a list of the columns, and you can copy from there the column names in a comma-separated list. I use this often to get a subset of columns to paste into the column list of a SELECT.

    You can also get the column list with data types, again, comma-separated. That could be used, if creating a table, perhaps. I've not used that feature yet, myself.

  • Guest
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    Nov 29, 2021

    This is a duplicate of https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=100269

  • Guest
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    Oct 28, 2021

    there are times where you only want/need a couple of the rows/columns.
    being able to select the column names will make this process easier/quicker.

  • Guest
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    Jun 25, 2020

    IBM understands this request and will consider it for a future code update, though no commitment is made or implied.

  • Guest
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    May 3, 2019

    IBM has received this requirement and is evaluating it. A response will be provided when evaluation is complete.

  • Guest
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    Apr 17, 2019

    Right click on results and choose "save results" will copy headers and data to a spreadsheet.

  • Guest
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    Apr 16, 2019

    If you save the results to a XLS you have the headers as well.