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Re: Viewing packed decimal field as a string

In that case, I like Rob's idea.

- Dan

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:30 PM, Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was hoping to do this in SQL so that I can then do a LIKE '%12345%'
where 12345 is the string in the packed decimal field so I can globally
find all string values across all tables that contain that packed decimal
value.

I don't think that EXTJRNDTA would do that since it is on a file by file
basis and would take days to go through hundreds of files on a file by file
basis like that.


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