Re: Embedded SQL problem

Hello Vernon,

You wrote:
>Are any of the colums variable-length? In C, at least, these come in as
>struct, with 2 elements - length and data. Does this happen in COBOL?
>That'd be a second level, as someone else pointed out.

They do the same in COBOL.  VARCHAR fields appear as level-49 subfields; 1
for the length and 1 for the data, and they are not directly usable as
host variables.  Any FILLER fields in the structure will also cause
problems for the pre-compiler.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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