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GaganGarg
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Hi,
I am trying to insert square brackets – [] into a db2 column that has datatype char. Insertion returns sql code as 0 and the insertion is successful. But it in the table square brackets are inserted as dots. What could be the reason for this.Is it that square brackets don’t comply with char datatype in db2??
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Escapa
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Actually it is hard to believe...
show us datatype of column and your insert query(if you are doing this though cobol-db2 program then population of hos variable also...) |
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enrico-sorichetti
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square, curly brackets, vertical bar ( continuos vs. split )
have always been a pain in the ***
check ( have Your support ) all You can about code pages and terminal translation tables...
look at the data in hex and check again
maybe it' s only Your terminal unable to display it! |
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Robert Sample
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| What could be the reason for this.Is it that square brackets don’t comply with char datatype in db2?? |
No, the problem is that square brackets do NOT have a standard representation in EBCDIC. Depending upon the code page used, they can be different characters. And what one code page handles as a square bracket, another code page may handle as a dot (i.e., undefined value). |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Suggest you look at the value in HEX to see what was really inserted. . .
Here is what my systems shows:
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Robert Sample
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| Here's my system:
the characters on the mainframe emulator show as square brackets. |
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