Some time last year we learned of the plans to prevent the creation of deprecated objects - which proved potentially contentious.

Check out Paul's blog that explains why we are doing this and what your options are:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/897a7c98-57af-4523-9cfa-07ebc3f996b4/entry/You_can_prevent_the_creation_of_new_deprecated_objects_in_Db2_12_function_level_504?lang=en

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Karen Wilkins
Client Technical Professional
IBM UK Ltd
Bristol
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The link above no longer works with the sunset of IBM developerWorks, but you can still find blog entries on this subject!

• For the migrated blog entry mentioned above, see: You can prevent the creation of new deprecated objects in Db2 12 function level 504
• For a more recent blog entry on the same subject, see: You can still create deprecated objects in Db2 12 at FL 504 or higher

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Paul McWilliams
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