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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories IBM i Access Family
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 30, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

ACS Schema Browser - Allow for re-arranging columns

One issue we have run into many times is re-arranging columns in a table (due to table refactorings over time only allowing adding columns to end of table).

Other database platforms allow for simple, 15 second changes that allow you to re-order columns.

However IBM i has never had that simple ability. After a table is created in IBM i the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons are not available. Instead you are only allowed to add field to the "End" of the file. This is not always ideal.


Use Case:

You start with a table. Later you determine you want to add fields. Such as adding extra categories, and those categorie fields should ideally be grouped next to the other categorie fields in database. Instead DB2 only allow to add to end, making them not show up next to each other, causing less than ideal data viewing experience.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 25, 2018

    This support is available in the update delivered in June 2018.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 11, 2018

    The ability to add new columns before existing ones will be provided in our next update.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 13, 2017

    IBM has received this requirement and is evaluating it. A response will be provided when evaluation is complete.

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