RE: What about Blobs?

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> James, I vaguely coming across the "datalink" field before.  Do you know
> if that is an iSeries centric thing or is it a DB2 thing, or ?

It seems to be a DB2 SQL-only thing. It's in the InfoCenter, under
Programming/SQL Programming/Processing special data types/Using Datalinks

Best of luck keeping InfoCenter from crashing your browser. Give me a nice
bound manual any day.

T'was a royal pain in the butt getting QuestView to successfully and
reliably display and update the damned things, but rewarding to be able to
do something supposedly impossible. (Supposedly, datalinks, like LOBs,
can't be accessed from the native database runtime calls. LOBs can't, but
at least I could keep QV from choking on them and crashing; they just
display a message indicating that they're LOB fields. For Datalinks,
though, I was able to get them to display both the URL and the comment, as
separate fields, color-coded according to which is which. And of course,
while terminals can't do much with URLs, any decent emulator (including
ours, of course) can hyperlink to them.

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JHHL