Re: BLOB's on AS/400? -- RPG400-L

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I have heard that BLOBs can be saved and accessed through SQL
on the AS/400, but not RPG or any other interface.  I could be wrong
on this.  Also, there was something about using the IFS for BLOBs.

So, I understand it can be done, but since we don't have SQL here
(V3R7M0) we've never used them.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Nelson, Jim (RCIS)" wrote:

> I'm sure it's been asked and answered, but here goes...
>
> Part of our e-commerce strategy may be to 'store' the document created by
> the user as a BLOB.  I'm not finding any documentation on if/when/how the
> AS/400 will support this.
>
> Anybody have the answer?
>
> Thanks,
> JN

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