Re: NULL's on the Iseries

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way I solved the positional problem using a piece of code that Buck
Calabro kindly provided. It extracts the fields list from the ds and give
back an array with the fields name. A lookup can get the position.

If somebody want the source just contact me offline.

HTH
Marco

--- Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> True, but if you need to test the column for NULL after you have fetched 
> (not in a WHERE clause), you have to have that NULL indicator variable.
> One 
> problem Marco pointed out is, the NULL indicator array has to be resized
> if 
> you change the number of columns. I don't know that this is specifically
> an 
> RPG limitation when working with SQL, I also saw it in an SQL Server 
> context. I think it is a general SQL issue.
> 
> We can also use IS NULL or IS NOT NULL in a WHERE clause but not anywhere 
> else I know of.
> 
> Vern



        
                
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