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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on May 14, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Make installing Visual Explain optional

When installing IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) the option is given to skip the installation of several components. Run SQL Scripts (RSS) always has Visual Explain included.

I would like to see this treated similar as the System Debugger which is optional.

I see customers installing using other SQL tools in order to avoid having to give them access to Visual Explain. You could say that RSS was never intended to be an end user tool, but did we not say the same for Query/400 a very long time ago?

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 3, 2024
    Thank you for submitting your Idea to enhance IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS). Making Visual Explain a separate and optional plugin from Run SQL Scripts is not something we plan to do.

    IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 15, 2024

    Note that the Db2 for i extension for VS Code also allows access to Visual Explain (not that visual (graphic), but anyway...).

    So another option could be to add Visual Explain to the Function Usage Administration and let the system administrator set which (group of) users are allowed to use Visual Explain, instead of letting the SQL tool decide whether to have VE installed or not.


    Best regards,

    Christian Jorgensen

    CEAC member

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