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  3. January 2016

Re: INTEGER & VARCHAR() on I-specs

On 1/14/2016 5:20 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:
Isn't it there already?
"For character, graphic, or UCS-2 data, the *VAR data attribute is used to
specify variable-length input fields."

I commented here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzasd/ifd36.htm

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/14/2016 4:26 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:
On 1/14/2016 3:59 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

I-specs don't have a separate data type for VARCHAR ...

For I specs, you put *VAR in the Date/Time Format entry.

I........................Fmt+SPFrom+To+++DcField+
I *VAR A 1 12 FLD10


http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rzasd/ifd3134.htm

I will comment on the Position 36 (Data Format) page to that effect.
Thanks for the heads up!




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