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"I strongly suggest querying the SYSCOLUMNS a few times. If for no other reason than to know that there are other ways to get field information than something you've been relying upon since before this capability was introduced in V3R1. That, and to ease the transition of people from other databases to our machine. Other databases, like Microsoft SQL and whatnot, all have a 'system catalog' similar to DB2. Rob Berendt "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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