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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 30, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Allow partitioning of DDS created tables

As of today, a DDS created table cannot be partitioned by ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION.

In many cases, a DDS table can be converted to an SQL table, however some keywords like DATFMT are not available in SQL. Which means that those tables cannot be converted without application changes or at least recompiles with extensive testing.

Lifting the DDS requirement would drastically reduce the effort to partition a table.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 15, 2023
    IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this Idea at this time, so it is being closed.

    The database team has many higher priority Ideas to implement and will not be considering this enhancement.

    We recommend using the database consultants that are part of IBM Technology Expert Labs. They have experience with migrating DDS files to SQL tables including solutions for DDS items that are not available in SQL. Contact John Westcott JWestcott@ibm.com to learn more.

    Db2 for i development team
    IBM Power Systems Development

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