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Speaking of hex fields, was Re: What exactly is a "Binary Character" field?

This came up because Chuck mentioned Hex fields in relation to my BINCHAR issues.

I've got a post on the JAVA400-L List, regarding something I discovered about Hex fields in relation to my JDBCR4 project, but so far no responses.

Does anybody know of a way to tell a hex field from an alphanumeric field, purely through the SQL metadata? As far as the metadata is concerned, the records in QSYS2/COLUMNS look exactly the same for hex and alphanumeric, and so does the metadata Squirrel presents in the "Columns" tab, and yet an SQL fetch returns 8 characters for an 8-byte alphanumeric field, but 16 hex digits for an 8-byte hex field.

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