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Re: AW: Handling null-capable fields with program-described file-- reading externally described using program defined layout

Peter Dow (ML) wrote:
Thanks Scott. I think I'll give the ILE C APIs a try. I take it from your comment that they cannot handle CLOBs or DBCLOBs? Not that I want to handle them, just curious.

Right... LOB fields can only be used via SQL interfaces. I can envision situations where CLOBs or DBCLOBs might be nice to have in a CSV file. (Though I can't envision any reason why a BLOB would be desirable in a CSV file, but iSeries people surprise me every day, so I could be wrong about that...)

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