RE: CRTDUPOBJ vs SQL CREATE TABLE LIKE

[R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 10:53 -0500, Joe Pluta wrote:
> I don't think the premise is incorrect at all.  In general, SQL on i5/OS has
> been pretty good about playing well with DDS.  And format level is something
> that, while it's a "DDS thing", there's no reason SQL shouldn't honor it.

But SQL doesn't "honor" it... if the receiving field is compatible, the
data is retrieved, regardless of the format level id. There isn't a
level check in SQL. This is one reason why we don't use select * in
embedded SQL.