RE: VARCHAR Field Size Max -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: VARCHAR Field Size Max
From: "Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:51:17 -0600
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Embedded SQL ought to work, right?

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/topic/rzajp/rzajplobva
r.htm#rzajplobvar

Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: VARCHAR Field Size Max

CLOBs are the only thing I can think of - but unless things have
changed you can't actually get at them directly in RPG, so depending
on how you intend to build the application...

I guess an SQL function could be written to retrieve the data in 32K
chunks.

Jon Paris

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