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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

With CREATE TABLE ( LIKE SomeTable ), allow inheritance of nullability and labels

When doing CREATE OR REPLACE MYTABLE
(
LIKE ANOTHERTABLE INCLUDING COLUMN DEFAULTS
)

Please inherit nullability and labels from ANOTHERTABLE, or, give the option to, similar to INCLUDING COLUMN DEFAULTS.


Use Case:

I often need to create a table this way, and I also have to add columns and/or change the key. That's why I use the parentheses, but using LIKE within parentheses does not inherit nullability or LABELS.

Not using parentheses does inherit them, but I cannot add columns or keys unless I use ALTER TABLE. Using this method though, if I recreate the table, the columns I created, and the data in them, will be lost on CREATE OR REPLACE; I'd have to use ALTER to put them back (without the unrecoverable data).


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 26, 2021

    IBM will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. This request will be updated in the future if IBM implements it.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 23, 2020

    IBM has received the requirement and is evaluating it. IBM will provide a response after evaluation is complete.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 23, 2020

    The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.

    Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.

    To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT

    Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 23, 2020

    The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.

    Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.

    To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT

    Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 2, 2020

    I vote for that - (maybe it is actually a PMR)

    Maybe you need to point out that "create table xxx like yyy" actually works perfectly, however when you update a table with "create or replace table xxx like yyy" and labels and default is not being updated.

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