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Statements (DDL and DML)

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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...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Create a trigger after having created a new table

Referring to PMR 67177,650,758 Customer wish to have an "after create" option for the "create trigger" command so that is possible to execute some actions after any new object is created inside a DB
about 8 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 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Set integrity at schema level

Allow to do a set integrity at the schema level
over 9 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.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

allow "COMMENT ON" statement to add comments longer than 254-char to 2000

254-char long field too small to store comments attached to added objects (views, nicknames, columns, indices) when apps migrated from ORACLE to DB2
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

It will be nice to start a Commandline-Script like test.sh from attachement in DB2-Stored Procedures. In db2 commandline call it allready works: db2 " select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput) " Commandline Result: TESTOUTPUT ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

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