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meetsupriyo
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Hi,
I have a table on which a column is defined as VARCHAR(3500). I want to extract this column by SQL in a File. However as the column is VARCHAR, I am getting length as first two bytes which I dont want. Using CAST AS CHAR wont help as maximum character that I can extract is 255 I think. Is there anyway to extract the whole VARCHAR column as normal character without the length?
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
One way would be to read the column into a ws-variable and then write your output file from this. |
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meetsupriyo
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Hi,
I dont want to write a COBOL DB2 Code for this. I was seeking if we can fulfil this requirement by a Job using SQL
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Supriyo. |
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Nic Clouston
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of course you can do this - it just depends on what programs that job is trying to execute and if those programs can do what you need. If they cannot then you will have to write a piece of code that will do it. I would suspect that that would be the most efficient way of doing it - but maybe not. |
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Pandora-Box
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Hi,
Do you the output file as FB? |
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sushanth bobby
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Supriyo,
Give a try on CLOB function,
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select CLOB(columnname,3500)
from tablename
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Not tested
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Sushanth |
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