Re: How to retrieve TEXT/COLHDG of a database field using the toolbox ?

Sounds like a great update for the toolbox.  Is there a
reason this functionality was left out in the first place?

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:50:15 -0600
 "Dave Wall" <dawall@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry, the RLA classes don't retrieve that data.  Have
> you tried JDBC or
> using a system API to dump the data to a file which you
> can read with RLA?
>
> David Wall
> AS/400 Toolbox for Java
>
>
>
>
>                     Geert Van
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> How to retrieve TEXT/COLHDG of a database field
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>                     11/08/2001 09:26
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> Hello all,
>
> Does anybody know how to retrieve the TEXT or COLHDG of a
> database field?
> I'm using the SequentialFile, RecordFormat,
> FielDescription and
> AS400DataType classes
> to retrieve all the information needed about database
> fields of a given
> file.
>
> Unfortunately the getText() method of FieldDescription
> does not return the
> TEXT value
> defined in the DDS on the system. The database fields are
> all defined using
> reference fields.
>
> I'm not using the open version of the toolbox. Could this
> make any
> difference?
> Is there another way to retrieve this info using java?
> (not system api's)
>
>
>
> Geert Van Landeghem
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