Adding a column to a DD target

Andy Knipp

I am wondering if I was bitten by one of the IWDELTRACKER tables or something else completely.

We have had DD 6.0.1 running on Win2k deploying to DB2 for a while.

New requirement to add data to the DB. New column, not null. Admin put blanks in and kept the old data.

I added the entry into the deploy config file.

Strange thing that happened is that while DD returned success, no data (new column or old) changed.

If I added a new DCR, it worked great. I just could never change data that was in the DB before.

We dropped old records. DD worked great.

This was on our dev server. The issue is I need to go to production. Do I tell management that I need to drop all records in this table and run DD on everything ? That will not be popular.

Again, I have no idea if the admin who put the temp data in the column did something that prevented me from over writing it, or if there is something inside DD that I am not understanding.

Ring any bells for anyone ?


Andy