RE: LOB fields

James,

There is a redbook that explains how this LOB stuff works

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245409.html

Cheers
Colin.W

-----Original Message-----
From: James H H Lampert [mailto:jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 13 January 2004 22:24
To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: LOB fields


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?

--
JHHL





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