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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 6, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

CREATE VIEW without dependency

We have a need to create views that might span multiple schemas (aka. libraries) and if you create a view that does this, you cannot clear any of the libraries because of the dependency.  My work around has been to create a user defined table function of the complex query, which does avoid the dependencies but overly complicates the process, and then create a view over the UDTF to make it easy to use.  I'd like to be able to have a way to just create a view that is evaluated at the time of execution to avoid the dependency issue.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    May 3, 2026
    We understand your request but do not plan to implement it at this time, so we are closing the Idea.

    A view, by long-time design, keeps a tight hold on its file dependencies. We do not intend to relax those rules.

    Our recommendation is to do exactly what you describe: return the view content from a table function and wrap that with a view.

    Db2 for i development team
    IBM Power Systems Development
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