RE: CPYF Failing

I figured out the issue. So for the archives:

After stepping away and coming back to revisit the issue with a fresh perspective, the problem was not the new field I was adding. The problem was that the table I was creating the table LIKE had an identity column, and I did not specify that I wanted to include the identity. By not including the identity, the Create Table Like created the column as Not Null, but has no Default value to apply to it.

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 8:50 AM
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Subject: RE: CPYF Failing

Sorry about that, SJL.

The MsgID is CPF5035.

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sjl
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 9:18 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: CPYF Failing

Kurt -

When posting a message description or portion thereof, you should also post the message id (MSGID).

Regards,
sjl


-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 4:05 PM Newsgroups: midrange.midrange-l
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: CPYF Failing

I added a column to a table. The added column is not the last column.
SourceOfStatement For
SourceCode Char (10) NOT NULL DEFAULT ' ',

I then ran a CPYF with map/drop to copy data from the old version of the table into the new. This works.

But we have another table that is defined LIKE the table that was changed.
CREATE TABLE StatePH1 LIKE StateP
RCDFMT StateF;

The CPYF with map/drop from the old StatePH1 table to the new one results in the following error:
20 -- A field that is not null capable could not be set to null.

Does anyone have an idea as to what I need to fix here? According to this
old document, it should be bringing in the Default Value (and based on the error, it sounds like it's bringing in the nullability, which appears to be in the same group as the Default Value):
https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/index.htm?info/sqlp/rbafymstcrttbllike.htm

I'd appreciate any feedback. We're on IBM i 7.1

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
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