Re: NULL's on the Iseries

If you plan to use:

SQL, the support is complete
RPGIV, partial support for previous release, good for V5R3
SQL/RPG, almost not supported.

HTH
Marco

P.S. RPGIV supports null only on database fileds.

--- Chris Payne <CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
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> What is your take on NULL's on the Iseries, do they have a place? If a
> user does not enter data into an optional numeric field, do you set the
> field to 0 or NULL? What are some of the drawbacks of using NULL's?
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