RE: Compile SQLRPGLE with ALWNULL

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've never needed to do this (lucky me, I guess), but according to the SQL 
reference, the procedure must declare itself as GENERAL WITH NULLS, and 
apparently pass an additional parameter to hold the null byte map. It 
further elucidates "see the book DB2 UDB for AS/400 SQL Programming, 
SC41-5611-02."

I hope that puts you on the trail of something useful.

Pete


At 16:39 04/27/2001, you wrote:
>Sudha,
>I believe that you can only set the null value for a database field.  Making
>a copy in a data structure will not work.  The field must directly come from
>a database file.  If I remember properly, it must be an update capable
>database file.  This is a huge limitation, and if I knew who to write at
>IBM, I would complain bitterly.  I got extremely frustrated the last time I
>tried to use null capable fields with embedded SQL.
>
>As for another way, I have not personally tried, but perhaps SQL CLI will
>allow you to set the null value.
>
>Buck
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sudha Ramanujan
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:43 PM
> > To:   'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject:      RE: Compile SQLRPGLE with ALWNULL
> >
> > I have all the result set fields defined in a dds with ALWNULL to make
> > them null capable.  I  use extname to get the field formats into the
> > SQLRPGLE.  I use this structure for my result set to return to Java
> > program.  I create my stored procedure with 'Create procedure' in embedded
> > sql. (since the input parms/output parms other than result set)  This
> > works very well but for this new 'Null' value problem.  Is there any other
> > way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Sudha
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Pete Hall
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