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Statements (DDL and DML)

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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.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 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.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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 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

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...
over 6 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
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under 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
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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