RE: Blobs - Was - Floating Point Question

[Terry Richardson <RichardsonT@xxxxxxxxx>]

"This is the first time ever that IBM has ever been this careless."
Shouldn't that be 'forward-looking' instead of 'careless', Al?
Terry Richardson
Sr. P/A
The Orvis Company, Inc.
802-362-8663


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
        Sent:   Monday, August 16, 1999 12:36 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: Blobs - Was - Floating Point Question

        At 09:32 AM 8/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
        >I have to admit to a little (or possibly a lot of) ignorance
here.
        >
        >What are blobs?
        Binary Large OBjectS.  (otherwise known as support for fat
people)

        The second release of V4R4M0 (which should have been called
V4R4M1, but IBM 
        cheaped out) which has database blob support.

        As I understand it, it will allow you to put a .JPG into a
database 
        record.  This would allow you to put a photo into a personnel
record.  I 
        suspect that it will not be well embraced, as there is no DDS
support for 
        this stuff.  It can only be created in SQL, which IMHO is a more
widely 
        used interface (on every platform in the world, but not the
AS/400) and an 
        inferior interface for creating databases to DDS.

        Databases saved with this stuff may not be able to restore to
other systems 
        at V4R4M0, unless these systems also have these PTFs.  This is
the first 
        time ever that IBM has ever been this careless.

        Al


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