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  3. January 2001

Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem

  • Subject: Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem
  • From: "Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:36:24 +0100
 
From STRSQL on the AS/400
ciao.

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:05:34 -0600, Richard Dettinger wrote:

>
>RE: "I can execute the same statement (INSERT) on the AS/400 without
>problems."
>
>Do you mean with the Native JDBC driver or some other way?
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard D. Dettinger
>AS/400 Java Data Access Team
>
>"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why
>WILL you say that I am mad?
>The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. "
>
>- Edgar Allan Poe
>"The Tell-Tale Heart"
>
>
>
>
>"Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@ticino.com>@midrange.com on 01/11/2001 01:07:50 PM
>
>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>
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>
>
>To:   "JAVA400-L@midrange.com" <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>, Richard
>      Dettinger/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
>cc:
>Subject:  Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem
>
>
>
>Ritchard,
>tanks for the answer, but,
>as mentioned,
>there are no fileld that are longer of the DB definition, all the fields
>are checked for the lenght,
>I tried with very small field length from tha java app. and all the string
>are trimmed...
>I can execute the same statement (INSERT) on the AS/400 without problems.
>
>Just a question:
>can be that you check on the "dot" ('.') on strings and this produce a data
>truncation problem ???
>
>Thanks.
>
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:27:07 -0600, Richard Dettinger wrote:
>
>>
>>Everything that Dave said is right on, but I would like to add a comment
>or
>>two and then see if anyone has
>>any additional opinions on the subject.
>>
>>1) We really made this change to the default for a couple reasons
>including
>>specification conformance, conformance
>>with JDBC drivers for other platforms such as UDB, and the general safety
>>issue of making users take explicit
>>action if they want to have potentially dangerous behavior.
>>
>>2) We have had the data truncation connection attribute in both JDBC
>>drivers for some time to allow the switching of
>>this behavior between compliant and non-compliant.  Because few people
>were
>>running with the compliant beharior,
>>we quickly found a couple bugs when we switched the default as Dave noted.
>>
>>3) Besides changing the default, we did change a couple aspects of how
>data
>>truncation connection property works.
>>Here are the basics of the new rules:
>>
>>A) First, for columns of type NUMERIC and DECIMAL the flag is ignored.
>You
>>can't turn off data truncations for
>>columns of these types because we didn't feel it was a good idea to let
>>users stick 100 into a NUMERIC(2)
>>column and get the value 10 or 00 no matter what any propety was set to.
>>
>>B) That being said, there is a concept of significant truncation and
>>insignificant truncation with NUMERIC and
>>DECIMAL numbers.  The difference is whether the truncation happens to the
>>right or left of the decimal postion.
>>Truncation to the right of the decimal point (the fractional portion of
>the
>>value) is insignificant and always happens
>>silently.  Truncation to the left of the decimal point (the whole number
>>portion of the value) is always significant
>>and always results in data truncation exceptions.  This behavior is
>>designed this way to exactly match how
>>interactive SQL and other database interfaces treat the NUMERIC and
>DECIMAL
>>data types.  If you want to
>>test examples, use the STRSQL CL command to start iSQL, create a table
>with
>>the column specification you
>>want and try some inserts with various sizes.
>>
>>4) There is a known issue that we have yet to deal with.  The
>specification
>>states that data truncation on a value
>>to be written to the database should throw an exception.  If it is not on
>a
>>write to the database, it should be a
>>warning.  We have a rather all or nothing view of how to handle truncation
>>issues today.  What is really needed
>>is to create the DataTruncation object and throw it or issue addWarning
>for
>>it based on the SQL statement that
>>the parameter is for.  It is going to take a little time for us to work
>>that out but it is along these lines:
>>
>>statement type:          action:
>>SELECT         always warning (the value isn't going into the database)
>>UPDATE         always exception (the value is to be put into the database)
>>INSERT(simple) always exception (the value is to be put into the database)
>>INSERT(subselect)   I think this would always be a warning as the
>parameter
>>would be on the select clause...
>>                    can anyone provide an example against this?
>>CALL           probably can't know what the parameter will do... throw an
>>exception
>>
>>Whew... I'm tired now.  If anyone has opinions on this stuff, I'd love to
>>hear them.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Richard D. Dettinger
>>AS/400 Java Data Access Team
>>
>>"TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why
>>WILL you say that I am mad?
>>The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. "
>>
>>- Edgar Allan Poe
>>"The Tell-Tale Heart"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Dave Wall/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS@midrange.com on 01/11/2001 10:09:57 AM
>>
>>Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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>>
>>
>>To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
>>cc:   Christopher Smith/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS
>>Subject:  Re: JTOpen 2.0 problem
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Two things could be going on here.
>>
>>First, the check-for-truncation default was changed from false to true in
>>JTOpen 2.0.  In v4r5 and earlier, this flag defaulted to false so you
>>wouldn't know your data was being truncated unless your program set the
>>flag to true.  We think it is better (and will match the native JDBC
>>driver) to default the other way.  In JTOpen 2.0 we tell you your data is
>>being truncated unless you tell us you don't want to know.  So, one
>>possibility is your data was always truncated.  In v4r5 and before, since
>>the default is no warning, we wrote the data anyway.  Now with the default
>>being true, we throw an exception when data is truncated.  To go back to
>>the old behavior, set the flag to false -- ";data truncation=false" on
>your
>>URL.  (Also feel free to let us know if you agree with the change).
>>
>>Second, once we set the default to true we found a couple places where we
>>threw exceptions when we shouldn't have (data was not truncated).  We
>fixed
>>these places (SQLReal, SQLDouble and SQLFloat).  The fixes will be out in
>>the next open source drop.
>>
>>David Wall
>>AS/400 Toolbox for Java
>>
>>
>>"Franco Biaggi" <fbiaggi@ticino.com>@midrange.com on 01/10/2001 01:21:34
>AM
>>
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>>To:   "JAVA400-L@midrange.com" <JAVA400-L@midrange.com>
>>cc:
>>Subject:  JTOpen 2.0 problem
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello,
>>following error with JTOpen 2.0 (The application work fine with the JTOpen
>>shipped with VAJ Enterprise).
>>(There is no data truncation...)
>>
>>com.ibm.vap.common.VapPrepareFailureException: Prepare failure; nested
>>exception is:
>>        java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation
>>com.ibm.vap.common.VapPrepareFailureException: Prepare failure; nested
>>exception is:
>>        java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation
>>java.sql.DataTruncation: Data truncation at
>>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.testDataTruncationAS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1891)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.setValue(AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1871)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.setObject(AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.java:1551)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseStringField.setFieldObject(DatabaseStringField.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseTypeField.setObject(DatabaseTypeField.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseConnection.setInputValues(DatabaseConnection.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseConnection.executeQuerySpecWithValues(DatabaseConnection.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.ivj.db.base.DatabaseQuerySpec.executeOnConnection(DatabaseQuerySpecjava)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.executeNonSelectWith(SqlQuery.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.execute(SqlQuery.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.SqlQuery.execute(SqlQuery.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeQuery(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeOneInsert(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.RelationalPersistence.RelationalServiceObject.executeInsert(RelationalServiceObject.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ServiceObject.insert(ServiceObject.java)
>>        at
>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ServiceObject.insert(ServiceObject.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.PersistentHomeCollection.executeInsert(PersistentHomeCollection.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.NewPersistentState.synchronize(NewPersistentState.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Version.synchronize(Version.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.synchronizeVersions(Resource.java)
>>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.primPrepare(Resource.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ActiveResourceState.prepare(ActiveResourceState.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at com.ibm.vap.Persistence.Resource.prepare(Resource.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ResourceManager.prepareResources(ResourceManager.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Persistence.ResourceManager.synchronize(ResourceManager.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.synchronizeToResources(Transaction.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.primCommit(Transaction.java)
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.ActiveTransactionState.primCommit(ActiveTransactionState.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at
>>com.ibm.vap.Transactions.ActiveTransactionState.commit(ActiveTransactionState.java)
>
>>
>>
>>        at com.ibm.vap.Transactions.Transaction.commit(Transaction.java)
>>
>>
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