Native Regular Expressions In DB2 For i 7.1 And 7.2
May 19, 2015 Michael Sansoterra
Blast it! Another suite of custom code I have written and used over the years has recently been deprecated (or partially deprecated) by IBM. The good news is that regular expressions (abbreviated RegEx) are now a native part of DB2 featuring one new predicate (REGEXP_LIKE) and four new scalar functions: REGEXP_COUNT, REGEXP_INSTR, REGEXP_SUBSTR, and REGEXP_REPLACE. For IBM i 7.1, TR9 must be installed and for IBM i 7.2, TR1 must be installed. The new Regular Expression Functions Require licensed product #39 5770-SS1 International Components for Unicode to be installed on both IBM i 7.1 and 7.2. (This product is |