Variable length fields - was RE: How to display German "extra" characters -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Variable length fields - was RE: How to display German "extra" characters
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 06:24:23 -0500
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Yes, and RGZPFM in v5r1 does not compress out the unused entries for the
data longer than the allocated size.

At 06:02 PM 7/16/02 +1000, you wrote:
>You bet! :-) But DASD space for the developers of 400 has never been too
>much of an issue. For instance, variable length fields are still rather an
>add-on than a native feature of the DB2/400. imho.

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