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Alter Column from NOT NULL to NULLABLE and / or vice versa

 
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:00 am    Post subject: Alter Column from NOT NULL to NULLABLE and / or vice versa Reply with quote

Dear all,

I have a DB2 Version 10 subsystem for zOS.

I like to change a column from NOT NULL to NULLABLE and / or from NULLABLE to NOT NULL.

I checked the syntax trees in the IBM documentation. It seem's to me, what this doesn't work by SQL (ALTER TABLE .......).

Is this understanding correct or did I miss something?

Thus the possible solution is to unload the data, drop, create table and reload.

Any comments?

regards,
bauer
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the manual does not tell you how to do it then it cannot be done - at least, not by ALTER.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nic,

thank you - so I did not miss anything during my manual reading.

DROP TABLE / CREATE TABLE is the way.

Thank you and have a nice day,
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bauer,

DB2 on z/OS does not allow you to change the column attributes to NULL . As you have figured it out, you need to DROP and recreate the table.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kolusu,
thank you for your confirmation.
Kind regards,
Bauer
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