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Re: identity/automatic increment with DDS

I don't use the Navigator interface very much - the green screen is good enough - everything will run there, although not everything is prompted. So I took a look and am quite disappointed, although I understand some of how things are organized.
I took the link to run an SQL script and was happy to find the SQL Assist... (F4). At least for a while - then I found that it does not do anything for CREATE statements. So I said, what good is this? At least in the green screen there is a prompt for CREATE statements. (I also found out that the same SQL Assist is used in other DB2 products - limited statements it will work with there, too.)
So I thought, maybe the CREATE stuff is to be found elsewhere. And it is. If you right-click a schema you see a New item, where you can get dialogs for creating new tables, etc. And I believe there are edit items over individual objects, such as tables. So the DDL (data definition language) is not prompted in the script interface, only DML (data manipulation language). Not a design I like, but it is what it is.
So I tried to add an identity column - guess what, it does not seem there is any way to do it, even in the new table dialog. Ah, but I am working over a V5R1 machine that does not have them, so this is cool. Later I tried over V5R3 and all is good.
Now there is a data perspective in WDSC. Maybe Navigator is being left behind, too, now that WDSC is the big thing. This is not based on knowledge, just frustration. If you open the data perspective, be sure to use a filter, else it will take forever to get the list of tables.
There is also something (DB2 Connect?) that will also work with iSeries database, but I've not used it very much. I was able to add an iSeries database to my Windows DB2 in some way but got no further. That is MY limitation, I'm afraid. 

Regards
Vern

At 04:45 AM 12/13/2005, you wrote:


Thx, I was afraid the answer was going to be along your lines.
I did look in the manuals, and found nothing. But I had the hope I hadn't
looked properly, or in the right place, or something like that. I always get
that feeling when interacting with Infocenter.

Anyway, is there some kind of gui designer (as CODE Designer for PFs) for
SQL statements?
The SQL editor for Navigator is not better (it could be argued that's
positively worse) than the green SQL editor.

Regards,

I.-
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