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Statements (DDL and DML)

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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...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Support for application-period temporal tables defined as CTE

Support for application-period temporal tables in CTEs. To be able to join Temporal Tables and temporal CTEs with a FOR BUSINESS_TIME clause.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index rebuild.

Allow to send the commands create index in parallel on the same table (or any other operation which could be parallelized).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Add Create/Alter/Drop IF NOT EXISTS support for constraints and indexes

We would like the ability to add/alter/drop constraints and indexes, depending on their current state of existence.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

I hope add 'UPDATE CASCADE' like 'DELETE CASCADE'.

System: BASActor: DBA and Developers.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

Locally defined functions within stored procedures and user defined functions

Since Db2 10.1 it is possible to define locally defined types and procedures. In many situations locally defined functions are missing.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Add BEFORE and/or AFTER clause to ALTER TABLE

For the ALTER TABLE statement, it's relevant to add an "AFTER ..." OR "BEFORE ..." clause specifying where in the table the new column is to be placed. This statement component exists in DB2 for i and in certain other databases (like Informix and ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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