Re: SQL on V5R1

Hi James

I doubt GENERATED was available in V5R1 - you might still be able to get to an Infocenter for 5.1 - try this link -

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/rzahgicmain.htm

TheSQL Reference in RDi may have What's New for all previous releases - I forget now - and the version you have may not be most current but is certainly newere than 5.1, right?

HTH
Vern

PS I looked at the 5.1 reference - that feature was not there.

On 10/16/2015 3:51 PM, James Rich wrote:

Today I tried to create a table only to discover that the SQL statement doesn't appear to be supported. I checked the release and discovered this particular system is at V5R1, much to my dismay. Upgrading to a new IBM i might be a possibility, but before looking further into that the customer wants to explore what the other possibilities are. Here is the statement we're trying to run:

create table qs36f/PDFRPTP
(REPORT FOR RPID bigint generated always as identity(start with 1, increment by 1, no order, no cycle, no minvalue, no maxvalue, cache 20),
DATA FOR RPDATA blob(2G),
REPORTDATE FOR RPDATE timestamp,
NAME FOR RPNAME varchar(128),
TYPE FOR RPTYPE char(4),
NEWREPORT FOR RPNEW char(1),
USERNAME FOR RPUSER varchar(128),
DELETED FOR RPDELETED char(1) not null,
ARCHIVED FOR RPARCHIVE char(1) not null,
PRIMARY KEY (RPID))

Running the statement results in:

Token GENERATED was not valid. Valid tokens: NO FOR NOT FILE WITH CCSID CHECK UNIQUE DEFAULT PRIMARY.

Two options occur to me:

1. Is there a different syntax on V5R1 to accomplish the same thing?
2. Is there a PTF for V5R1 that gives the GENERATED capability? How would I find out? Is it even still available?

James Rich

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