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Subject: Re: Binary fields in DB2 and RPG
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:29:25 -0500
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Barbara Morris wrote:

As far as I can tell, it _does_ work for LIKE defines.

H extbinint(*yes)
F#Junkf if e disk
D ds e ds extname(#junkf) prefix(ds)
D likefld s like(fld1)
D likedsfld s like(dsfld1)

From the cross reference in the listing:
Global Field References
Field Attributes
DS DS(4)
DSFLD1 I(10,0)
FLD1 P(10,0)
LIKEDSFLD I(10,0)
LIKEFLD P(10,0)

The more I look at this, the more confused I get. From what I see here, I'm not sure what the field is defined in the file as. And it looks like that what happens is that the externally described data structure is what converts the field from a packed representation to a binary one.

Joe

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