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Re: null capable fields

  • Subject: Re: null capable fields
  • From: Mark Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 02:49:34
 
Jon,

At 12:02 PM 9/1/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Not really.  Moving data to a null capable field in RPG has no effect on the
>state of the null flag. The flag and the field must therefore be set/unset
>independently.  It would be nice to have this done automagically, but so few
>people use the null capable fields that I can't see it happening any time
soon.

 Maybe that's because they're difficult to use. Lack of automated flag
update is one reason.  How does Query/400 handle nulls?

 -mark

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