RE: AW: Retrieve a user's full name (not the User ID)

I'm trying this out in interactive SQL and can't seem to find the qsys2/users table. Is it only available for embedded SQL?
Quite often I need to search if an employee has an ID on the IBM i and this could be handy. Right now we create a file of user profiles each week but if this file is there it would work too.
Right now I use a statement like this on our file of users:
SELECT * FROM qgpl/userfile WHERE upper(uptext) like '%DAVE%'

Any questions, let me know please.

Thanks,

Dave B

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. - Will Rogers


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Subject: Re: AW: Retrieve a user's full name (not the User ID)

I was amazed by this function, but confused because I hadn't seen it before. I went looking for it in a reference chart I have from IBM online, and I didn't find this table function, but I did find the QSYS2.USER_INFO view. This view seems more restrictive by my authority to this data, possibly because there are a lot of fields in there. This QSYS2.USER() table function returns more results, possibly because the name of the user isn't subject to tight profile controls. I find that interesting.

IBM Provided an UDTF (User Defined Function) named USERS(), located

within

the QSYS2 library.
You easily can access this UDTF with (embedded) SQL:

Exec SQL Select ODOBTX into :HostVariable
from Table(Qsys2.Users()) x
Where ODOBNM = :HostUsrPrf;