5722-DE1 Text Extender - Enabling column for searching modifies the table?

All,

Playing around with the 5722-DE1 Text Extender, hoping to allow for
"fuzzy" searching over the description and other fields in an item
master file.

One problem, when you enable a column for searching, ie. build a text
extender index on that column, the system alters the table structure
by adding a new column to the table of type DB2TEXTH.

Two issues with this:

1) Kind of screws up all the RPG program accessing the file doesn't it?
2) What about the CMS (Aldon in this case)? I get the distinct
impression that a file so altered isn't going to play nicely with the
CMS.


Has anybody used the text extenders in either scenario?

Thanks!
Charles