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<h2 id="whatsnew"><a href="rbafzmst02.htm#ToC_14">What's new for V5R4</a></h2>
<p>The major new features covered in this book include:</p>
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<li>ISO timestamp format</li>
<li>Blanks in hex literals</li>
<li>SESSION_USER, SYSTEM_USER, CURRENT DEBUG MODE, and CURRENT DEGREE special
registers</li>
<li>Fullselect in a subquery and scalar fullselect</li>
<li>Recursive common table expressions and recursive views</li>
<li>ROW_NUMBER and RANK OLAP specifications</li>
<li><span class="italic">row-value-expressions</span> in predicates</li>
<li>ENCRYPT_TDES, GENERATE_UNIQUE, and RAISE_ERROR scalar functions</li>
<li>ADD_MONTHS, LAST_DAY, NEXT_DAY, and VARCHAR_FORMAT scalar functions</li>
<li>STDDEV_SAMP and VARIANCE_SAMP aggregation functions</li>
<li>ORDER OF in ORDER BY</li>
<li>USE AND KEEP EXCLUSIVE LOCKS</li>
<li>ALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR, DEALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR, GET DESCRIPTOR, and SET DESCRIPTOR</li>
<li>ALTER PROCEDURE</li>
<li>ALTER TABLE ACTIVATE NOT LOGGED</li>
<li>Materialized Query Tables (optimizer awareness)</li>
<li>VOLATILE tables</li>
<li>PAGESIZE index option</li>
<li>INSTEAD OF triggers</li>
<li>DESCRIBE INPUT</li>
<li>LABEL ON INDEX</li>
<li>SET CURRENT DEBUG MODE</li>
<li>SET CURRENT DEGREE</li>
<li>SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION</li>
<li>2MB SQL statements</li>
<li>128 byte column names</li>
<li>32K key and ORDER BY length</li>
<li>1024 parameters for C, C++, and SQL procedures</li>
<li>1000 tables in an SQL statement</li>
<li>Greater than 31 subqueries in an SQL statement</li>
<li>XA support over DRDA&reg;</li>
<li>ILE RPG Precompiler support for free-form RPG</li></ul>
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