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  3. December 2011

Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data

On 12/1/2011 2:20 PM, CRPence wrote:
How about using some SQL procedures [and\or functions] to perform the
work using CLOB data type, since SQL has similar capability to
various RPG BIFs? For example a scan implemented as a procedure
might look like:

I'm still limited to 64k for the text variable ... since I would need to pass it to the stored procedure.

PLUS (and this is just a personal preference) I really dislike RPG SQL ... I like the concept, but not the implementation (I dislike code generators in general).

david


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