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Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 28, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

hope to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function

Customer want to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function. In UDB, they can do this by:

alter table <tabname> add UPDATETIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP


Use Case:

Customer want to use IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED TIMESTAMP field track record change, UDB and MySQL have this function. In UDB, they can do this by:

alter table <tabname> add UPDATETIME TIMESTAMP NOT NULL IMPLICITLY HIDDEN GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 30, 2020

    IBM believes that the request described has been solved.

    Db2 for i has supported implicitly hidden row change timestamps since IBM i release 6.1.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 29, 2019

    I also thought it was available too, and just confirmed that it wasn't a false memory on my part. :) It is there just like Paul said.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 29, 2019

    This is already available in "DB2 for i":
    alter table add UPDATETIME
    TIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW
    ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP NOT NULL IMPLICITLY HIDDEN

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