RE: BLOB's on AS/400?

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

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As a side question,   How many would like it if Rochester changed the Data
Link
function so that we would see the URL field as just a Character type field
in RPG?

Something like we were able to do in RPGIII with DATE/TIME/TIMESTAMP data
types?

I think if we lean on Rochester they would do that for us. They just don't
know
we need it.

John Carr
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Yes, I would like to view the Link as a character string and/or retrieve
the
linked object.  We are looking into this for images of canceled checks that
will be scanned and placed in the IFS.

Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
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Chris,
I would like to petition Rochester(the DB2/400 people) to provide this
capability.    I would very much like this.
I was talking to Brad Stone about reading a data base record that
contained(via data link) the URL of things like images, etc and using that
URL in eRPG writing dynamic HTML.    I think it would help.

I then could have a Product Master record and it would contain the URL for
the image of the product right in the Product Master record.     If I
delete the Product Master,  it would automatically purge the Image IFS
file.

Neat stuff.

Lets send letters and email to Kent Milligan, Mike Cain, and anyone else in
DB2/400 world and tell them we need to be able to see the Data Links as
character fields in our RPG programs!!


John Carr
http://www.400school.com









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