JDBC and As/400 question -- JAVA400-L

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Hello everyone,

I have a possibly silly question, since I am totally unused to the AS/400 system. I want to connect to AS/400 files (this is a little obscure to me, I think AS/400 files equal to DB2 tables or not???) using JDBC from a Java program. The thing is that numeric is used for many fields in the files, and all of the fields are padded with zeros if the number has less digits than the field's declaration. For example for a numeric(9) field a correct entry would be 000056787. How is this possible to be kept consistent using JDBC calls? Could I insert rows using only strings which would be padded with zeros from my Java program or is there any other workaround? Thanks for your time, and I'm really sorry if the question is trivial.

Yiannis Stamatopoulos

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