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Statements (DDL and DML)

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Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to force their own connections.

Allow users without sysadm,sysctrl or sysmaint to force their own connections. Attaching e-mail thread on the topic: Walid Rjaibi/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA07/31/09 09:46 AM To Hebert Pereyra/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA cc Dimitri Milionis/Phoenix/IBM@IBMUS Subject...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

Executes external commandline-scripts from stored procedure. The stored procedure call should work like following: select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput); With the script i check if new created tables or views from developm...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Favor BID index against TBSCAN for MDC tables

Ref: case TS000043776 2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

It's not supported to use ASCII and UNICODE tables together (SQL0873N)

Case #000080573 DB2 Z/OS supports multi-codeset objects in one database but LUW does not that. We cannot do JOIN, UNION ALL, or SELECT ~ INSERT between these tables which are all supported in DB2 Z/OS. In addition, DB2 Z/OS has a function like UNI...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration