Re: BLOB's on AS/400?

Ack!
The only two links I had were posted to the list by rjslaney. Please
look for his message.

Merrill Gordon wrote:
> 
> Could you please also send to my email address: mgordon@forsyth.cc.nc.us
> Thanks.
> Merrill
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> >>> "L. S. Russell" <leslier@datrek.com> 05/02/00 12:54PM >>>
> Binary Large OBject, this is a relatively new gadget in DB2. I have some
> info I could send if you like.
> 
> Mike Silvers wrote:
> >
> > I am probably not the only one wondering this, but what is BLOB?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM>
> > To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: BLOB's on AS/400?
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > I would look into Data Links instead of Blobs.   Data Links would allow
> > you
> > > to
> > > store the documents in the IFS as a native .DOC, .ETC  whatever the format
> > > is.
> > >
> > > It would "Link" the directory path(URL,  ie  /MYDIRECTORY/MYDOC.DOC)  in
> > > the IFS
> > > and associate that document with a field in a data base record.  For
> > > example,
> > > if you did this,  you could not delete the document without deleting the
> > > DB2/400
> > > record that contained that URL first.
> > >
> > > The downside with Blobs, Clobs, DClobs, Data Links, etc is that you won't
> > > be able
> > > to see them in RPG or even use that file or it's logical's in RPG.
> > >
> > > As a side question,   How many would like it if Rochester changed the Data
> > > Link
> > > function so that we would see the URL field as just a Character type field
> > > in RPG?
> > >
> > > Something like we were able to do in RPGIII with DATE/TIME/TIMESTAMP data
> > > types?
> > >
> > > I think if we lean on Rochester they would do that for us. They just don't
> > > know
> > > we need it.
> > >
> > >
> > > John Carr
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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