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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on May 5, 2014

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We'd like a way to ALTER INLINE Scalar Functions

As noted in our 55126.379.000 PMR.... ‎

We recently encountered an issue when the need arose to change an inline UDF that has dependent objects (i.e. stored procedures). We ‎
found we cannot simply ALTER the UDF as we do when changing a stored procedure. Instead, we are required to drop dependent objects, redeploy the UDF and then recreate the dependent objects... including issuing grants. ‎

We did find that a non-inline function can be altered so, an option was to do a one-time conversion of the ‎function to a non-inline so that it could be altered in the future but, this still required the one-time drop of ‎dependent objects.‎
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So, short of converting all our functions to non-inline, so that we can subsequently do ALTERs on them, we'd like there to be a way to enhance UDFs WITHOUT dropping dependent objects and rebuilding everything that's dependent on them.‎
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This apparent restriction makes enhancing existing INLINE functions risky and time consuming.‎
  • Admin
    Janet Figone
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2022

    Dear Jim,

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. While we view all the enhancement requests we receive as valuable and we would like to implement all of them, in an effort to have maximum transparency we are not considering the ones that aren’t currently appearing on our 12 month product roadmap. This is not to say that these enhancements may not still be implemented at some point in the future as we do evaluate our requirements on the basis of customer demand and technical impact, to deliver maximum value to our customers.

    We appreciate your input to the Db2 for z/OS development team. And we hope that you will continue to submit enhancement suggestions for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of Db2 for z/OS.


    Sincerely,

    Db2 for z/OS Team

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