RE: Update Subset Of Column -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Update Subset Of Column
From: Buzz Fenner <bfenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 15:48:55 +0000
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 Rob Berendt wrote:

update rob.buzz
set mychar = overlay(mychar, x'12345F', 1, 3)
where mychar = mychar
;

I was looking through the SQL Reference 7.1 manual to learn more about using overlay, but I never found any info on it, as it was only referenced in the appendix (showing the SQL declarations code in an ILE RPG compiler listing). Is there a newer manual?

--Buzz

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