RE: Binary fields in DB2 and RPG -- MIDRANGE-L

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Wouldn't this be handled by the EXTBININT(*YES) control spec in RPGIV?

Eric DeLong

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of R Bruce Hoffman
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Binary fields in DB2 and RPG

Uhh... perhaps I am just misreading this... you mean RPG declares the
integer field as 9B0, right?

create table wtf (val int)
insert into wtf values(1234567890)
select * from wtf

you get back the 1,234,567,890

Joe Pluta wrote:

This is sort of an RPG thing, but really more of a DB2 issue, which is
why I posted it here.

Dave Odom ought to love this. It may have been discussed before, but I
didn't find it. Anyway, if you declare a field in SQL as type INT, it
is actually declared in DB2 as a 9B0 field. This is fine right up until
the time you try to write a value over 999,999,999. For example:
1,198,368,000, which is the number of seconds between January 1, 2008
and January 1, 1970.

Such joy.

Joe

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