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Statements (DDL and DML)

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Set integrity at schema level

Allow to do a set integrity at the schema level
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

List node & db directory using SQL

Create two new functions to list the content of the database and node directory.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

In error message display actual table's column name that is violating NOT NULL definition instead of outputing "TBSPACEID=2, TABLEID=5, COLNO=0"

I am constantly running into this problem when inserting null values into not null table column. Getting out tablespaceid, tableid and colno is time consuming and annoying to constantly check the column name that is defined not null, but null valu...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DB2Z-Allow for EXCHANGE DATA function on Clone table to NOT put packages in VALID status of 'A'

We have processes that use the clone table feature to allow for non disruptive load operations. When we do the exchange data the packages on the primary table move to a VALID STATUS of 'A' when they had a status of 'Y' previously. This creates iss...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow table compression to be disabled for DGTTs and CGTTs

In short: OLTP applications frequently encounter performance issues because DB2 enables table compression by default for all DGTTs / CGTTs. Details from a real-time example: When inserting 40K rows to a DGTT, it takes 2 seconds. When we immediatel...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for declare cursor database

The documentation of the DECLARE CURSOR does not include the DECLARE CURSOR DATABASE. However, this is included in other parts of the KnowledgeCenter.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER INDEX disable/enable feature

Oracle supports disabling index in ALTER INDEX command. Disabling an index means that the index still exists in the database, but it is not included in the optimizer. It would be also helpful in Db2 when find out the optimal Index.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow complete acces path in optimization hint (like db2 for ZOS)

We have the same cobol application that on both z/os and luw.We are using static sql in packages. We run 12 schemas using the same sets of tables in each for manual application parallelism.Occasionally a package for a given schema will flip access...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration