Re: LOB fields

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Williams said:

. . .
> If you use the LOB facilities available in the database, the system can
> create links to the IFS object, and can also protect the object so that it
> can only be accessed using the database reference, really depends on what
> your trying to acheive, and how sophisticated you want the app to be
. . .

Yes, the field in question is a CLOB field. I managed to populate it in my
test file from SQuirreL (a rather interesting Java SQL client that can
talk to the AS/400, to keep this marginally on-topic), and the value comes
up in SQuirreL, the way I typed it in, but if I then look at it using an
experimental version of QuestView that can open files with LOB fields, all
I find in my CLOB is a bunch of hex zeroes, followed by "*POINTER,"
followed by some EBCDIC spaces. Nothing to indicate where the CLOB content
is.

Does anybody here know where to look?

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JHHL