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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 26, 2025

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Include LF with shared access path in SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT

SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT include many usefull informations about logical files (DDS type). Since they are a valid substitute for the use of APIs, it would be very useful if logic files with shared access were also included in these tables.

Adding a column indicating the sharing condition and, if possible, additional columns with the sharing details would make the two tables usable for many of the basic functions needed for database maintenance and operations.


If the idea is not accepted, it would be necessary to update the documentation of the two tables, highlighting very clearly that the logical views with shared access are not included.

Currently the indication is only present on SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT.

The risk is that the maintenance utilities that use the two tables, not seeing all the views, compromise the use of sharing access path by creating indexes with separate maintenance (useless and expensive).

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 21, 2025
    IBM does not intend to invest in this solution at this time, so this Idea is being closed.

    The source of the information returned by the SYSPARTITIONINDEXES and SYSPARTITIONINDEXSTAT views does not reflect LFs that share access paths. Since the information is not available, a completely new index service with a new system interface would need to be created.

    As this Idea recommends, the documentation for these views will be updated to indicate that a logical file that shares an access path is not returned by the view.

    Db2 for i development team
    IBM Power Systems Development

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