OK, yes - - - at the company I am working at we do use iSeries to connect 
windows desktop to DB2 on AS400 so that would explain why it did not work - 
I had already found a workaround - thanks for the reply



On Monday, May 9, 2016 at 7:20:40 PM UTC-5, DenesL wrote:
>
> There are different platforms on which DB2 runs and in some the TRUNCATE 
> command is supported, but that is not the case for iSeries DB2.
> Which version of OS are you running?.
>
> The alternative seems to be a DELETE without a WHERE clause which could be 
> set as a TRUNCATE override in another db2 class adapter.
> You can use the mssql one as a reference.
>
> Or CLRPFM.
>
> Denes
>
> On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 4:02:18 PM UTC-4, Auden RovelleQuartz wrote:
>>
>> when i attempt to do a db.tablename.truncate() on a DB2 table, I get the 
>> following error:
>>
>> Ticket ID
>>
>> 127.0.0.1.2016-05-06.14-57-20.5ee10f85-fb6e-4bfe-8d16-db0b224313b9
>> <class 'pyodbc.ProgrammingError'> ('42000', '[42000] [IBM][iSeries Access 
>> ODBC Driver][DB2 UDB]SQL0104 - Token TRUNCATE was not valid. Valid tokens: 
>> ( END GET SET CALL DROP FREE HOLD LOCK OPEN WITH ALTER. (-104) 
>> (SQLExecDirectW)')Version
>> web2py™ Version 2.14.5-stable+timestamp.2016.04.14.03.26.16
>> Python Python 2.7.9: 
>> C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\web2py.exe (prefix: )
>> Traceback
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>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File 
>> "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", 
>> line 227, in restricted
>>     exec ccode in environment
>>   File 
>> "C:/Users/arovellequartz/Desktop/web2py_win/web2py/applications/test/controllers/default.py"
>>  <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/test/controllers/default.py>, 
>> line 57, in <module>
>>   File "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\globals.py", 
>> line 417, in <lambda>
>>     self._caller = lambda f: f()
>>   File 
>> "C:/Users/arovellequartz/Desktop/web2py_win/web2py/applications/test/controllers/default.py"
>>  <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/test/controllers/default.py>, 
>> line 52, in user
>>     db.riqtemp26.truncate()
>>   File 
>> "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\objects.py",
>>  line 838, in truncate
>>     return self._db._adapter.truncate(self, mode)
>>   File 
>> "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\base.py",
>>  line 1004, in truncate
>>     self.execute(query)
>>   File 
>> "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\db2.py",
>>  line 98, in execute
>>     return self.log_execute(command)
>>   File 
>> "C:\Users\arovellequartz\Desktop\web2py_win\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\base.py",
>>  line 1382, in log_execute
>>     ret = self.get_cursor().execute(command, *a[1:], **b)
>> ProgrammingError: ('42000', '[42000] [IBM][iSeries Access ODBC Driver][DB2 
>> UDB]SQL0104 - Token TRUNCATE was not valid. Valid tokens: ( END GET SET CALL 
>> DROP FREE HOLD LOCK OPEN WITH ALTER. (-104) (SQLExecDirectW)')
>>
>>
>> Is there something special required to use the truncate() feature with 
>> DB2 databases?
>>
>

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