PH71606: OBJECT COMPARE TOOL FAILS TO GENERATE CHANGE WHEN REORDERING COLUMNS IN A TABLE WITH IMPLICITLY HIDDEN COLUMNS

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APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• When comparing a table that has implicitly hidden columns and
  the source has user-visible columns reordered relative to the
  hidden columns, Object Compare incorrectly reports "No delta
  changes to process".
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS    *
  *                 and Db2 Object Comparison Tool for z/OS      *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Object Compare reports no changes       *
  *                      when reordering columns in a table      *
  *                      with implicitly hidden columns.         *
  ****************************************************************
  By default, Object Compare ignores the order of hidden
  columns when comparing tables. Therefore, when comparing a table
  that contains implicitly hidden columns with a source table
  whose user-visible columns are ordered differently relative to
  the hidden columns, Object Compare reports no changes.
  Object Compare does not detect the column reordering and
  therefore does not generate the required DROP and CREATE
  statements.
  
  This APAR adds an option to change this behavior:
  
  New option in panel ADB2PCO:
  Ignore hidden column order . . . . . NO (Yes/No. Default is Yes)
  
  New Batch parameter for Compare:
  IGNORE_HIDDEN_COLUMN_ORDER = Y/N
  

Problem conclusion

• The problem has been fixed.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

  UO09260

Modules/Macros

• ADB2000  ADB2CM1  ADB2CM2  ADB2CM3  ADB2CME  ADB2CMF  ADB2CMO
  ADB2CMP  ADB2CMR  ADB2CMS  ADB2CMT  ADB2CMU  ADB2PCO  ADBCCM
  ADBEMTAR ADBHPCO
  

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  DB2 ADMIN TOOL

• Fixed component ID

  568851500

Applicable component levels

• RD10 PSY UO09260

     UP26/09/09 P F609

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