RE: CHAR for BIT DATA fld

Interesting....

GUID/UUID's are 16 bytes, yet you're only storing 13.

Best way to generate them would be to use the GENUUID API.

Only thing I can think of off the top of my head would be to use an array of 1 byte integers....

D CREDGUID ds qualified
D byte 3u 0 dim(13)


D myValue s 20a inz('20080618090909123456')
D x s 10u 0


/free
For x = 1 to 10;
Credguid.byte(x) = %int(%subst(myvalue:((x*2) - 1):2));
Endfor;
Credguid.byte(11) = 20;
Credguid.byte(12) = 20;
Credguid.byte(13) = 20;
*INLR = *ON;
return;
/end-free

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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Subject: CHAR for BIT DATA fld

I have a column defined as CHAR FOR BIT DATA or CHAR(13) CCSID 65535 NOT
NULL. Why? Because this is the way it is defined in another table from
DB2 (Windows) that I am trying to duplicate/populate. W/in my RPG pgm,
the following stmt generates the correct data: CREDGUID =
x'20080618090909123456202020';

My problem is I need to use a variable (TIMESTAMP + 3 chars) part of the
value used to populate the CREDGUID column. I have tried stringing
together using the '+' char but when the data gets into the column it is
truncated because the working variable is larger than the result
(CREDGUID). I also tried using the HEX SQL BIF without success.

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.





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