RE: BLOBs

[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone notified the Pentagon ?      NASA ?          Bruce Willis ?

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-----Original Message-----
From:   Al Barsa, Jr. [SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
Sent:   Thursday, November 12, 1998 5:54 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: BLOBs

At 11:53 AM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anybody have any idea when (if?) IBM will support BLOBs and 
>memo fields in DB2?  It's sort of a pain to convert Access or dBase
>files without support for these data types.  In addition, modelling tools
>like ErWin support them, but the 400 can't directly implement them yet.
>
IBM has stated publicly that BLOBS are coming.

Al


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