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

Hi Dave,

users() is not a table. It is a user-defined table function (UDTF).
See how Birgitta and others are using it below.

If you are looking for a table, you can look at qsys2.user_info as someone
has already pointed out.


Yours truly,

Glenn Gundermann
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On 8 October 2015 at 12:02, Dave Boettcher <Dave.Boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

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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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;

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