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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 1, 2016

ACS Provide ability to specify result tab "Name/Title" for each SQL Script SELECT statement

Using the Run SQL Scripts function of i Access Client Solutions, it is possible to create very complex SQL Select statements. When running a script with several SELECT statements a separate result tab is created for each SELECT statement. The name on each tab is the actual SQL SELECT statement that was executed to produce the resulting tab. Since each SELECT statement can be thousands of characters long, and many can be produced by a single script, it can be very difficult to identify which resulting tab you are looking for.

ACS provides the ability to hover your mouse over a tab to see the SQL statement. There is also a "Rename a Tab" function which can be used after the SQL SELECT statement has been executed, but when many result tabs have been created it is difficult to distinguish one tab from another. It would be better to allow the user to specify the Name of the result tab with each SQL SELECT statement, using some sort of a label preceding each SELECT statement. Perhaps a user could name a tab using a tag, like <tab_name: 'xxxxxxxxxx' >, where the 'xxxxxxxxxx' is the resulting tab name for the following SELECT statement in the SQL Script?

Here is a possible example SQL Script:
----------------------------------------------------
<tab_name: 'Weekly Texas Productivity Results'>

SELECT * FROM Library/Table WHERE STATE = 'TX';


Use Case:

Specifying the resulting tab names for each SQL SELECT statement within an SQL Script will allow users to easily identify the resulting tabs produced by complex SQL Scripts. We currently run Scripts which produce several resulting tabs, which we then save as MS Excel spreadsheets and distribute them by email.


Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 8, 2016

    This function is already available in the product. Precede the SQL statement with a '--' style comment starting with "desc:" or "description:"

    For instance:

    -- description: my query
    select * from schema.table

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Nov 1, 2016

    Attachment (Description): This attachment shows 9 result tabs from one SQL script. The name of each tab is the actual SQL SELECT statement that was executed to produce the resulting tab. As you can see the names make it hard to identify which tab contains what you are looking for.