diff --git a/ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/persist/dml/InsertMeta.java b/ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/persist/dml/InsertMeta.java
index 2ebba4d05..e3a89d1fa 100644
--- a/ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/persist/dml/InsertMeta.java
+++ b/ebean-core/src/main/java/io/ebeaninternal/server/persist/dml/InsertMeta.java
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ final class InsertMeta {
       case MARIADB:
       case ORACLE:
         return " values (default)";
+      case DB2:
+        return " (" + id.getIdentityColumn() + ") values (default)";
       default:
         return " default values";
     }
diff --git a/ebean-test/src/test/java/org/tests/defaultvalues/TestDefaults.java b/ebean-test/src/test/java/org/tests/defaultvalues/TestDefaults.java
index 170584d5b..9822a68ff 100644
--- a/ebean-test/src/test/java/org/tests/defaultvalues/TestDefaults.java
+++ b/ebean-test/src/test/java/org/tests/defaultvalues/TestDefaults.java
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ public class TestDefaults extends BaseTestCase {
     assertThat(current).isNotEmpty();
     if (isMySql() || isMariaDB() || isOracle()) {
       assertThat(current.get(0)).contains("insert into defaults_model_draft values (default);");
+    } else if (isDb2()) {
+      assertThat(current.get(0)).contains("insert into defaults_model_draft (id) values (default)");
     } else if (isSqlServer()) {
       assertThat(current.get(0)).contains("insert into defaults_model_draft (id) values (?)");
     } else {