RE: WRKDBF Bye Bye

[breger1@xxxxxxxxxxx]

As others have noted in the past, and as described in the user documentation, 
WRKDBF does not support null-capable files.

When IBM added null-capable support to RPG they added it only for externally 
described file specs, they did not add it for internally described file specs.  
(No, I don't know why.)  Since WRKDBF must be generic and cannot possibly know 
what file will be used at execution time, I have coded a long internally 
described "F" spec to cover all the possible files that might be used.  
However, doing so makes nulls problematic.

Bill

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> Bill has been good with WRKDBF in the past when I discovered new things in 
> DB2, or just when I started using stuff in DB2 that's been out there for 
> years. 
> 
> My current issue is with null capable fields ....