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  3. November 2002

RE: Open a file that contains a LOB field

> Care to show how you figured that out?

(1) I ran STRSQL.

(2) I typed CREATE LOBFILE, etc.

(3) I typed SELECT LOBFILE, etc. to open the file.

(4) While the file was open, I pressed ATTN key to get a command line.

(5) I ran my explorer program that walks the chain of open data paths in my
job's QDMCQ---the anchor to QDMCQ is at BASPCO POS(H"21")---and displayed
the live UFCB that STRSQL, SELECT was using.

(6) I analyzed the UFCB variable area for stuff, and noticed SQL generated
a UFCB with about a dozen variable parameters, including parameter values
165, 166, and 167.

(7) I tested a little MI UFCB program and determined 165 allows open with
user data types, 166 allows open with datalinks, 167 allows open with
CLOBs.

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