Re: BLOB

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

almost forgot...

You could define the data as a type and then write your own UDF (User
Defined Function) to deal with the movement, storage and other operations on
the data. But, if you are just storing the data (say a picture in JPG format
for a personnel system) then datalinks is the way...

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 3:33 PM
Subject: BLOB


>I finally have a perceived need for BLOB fields.  I want to create a
database
>with the item number and a drawing of the item.  Then I intend on using LEI
to
>pump the data into Notes.  (Although the message "Error: Invalid data type
for
>field 'BLOB',  Connector 'rob',  Method -Select-" has me a little
concerned.)
>Anyways let's say I get this to work.  How do I get data into the BLOB
field?
>For example let's say that I have the drawing in the IFS as a *.bmp file.
>
>Rob Berendt
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