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Data types in a universal file definition for sql queries

Data types in a universal file definition for sql queries

Data types in a universal file definition for sql queries

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I'm trying to set a data dictionary using a proprietary  technology to give a relational view of a hierarcical legacy database.  The records on the database  will have certain signed numeric fields that are longer than sixteen characters, the SQL manual suggests I declare them as 'COMP' so that they only take up eight bytes of physical storeage but this returns some pretty dodgy results. Am I doing something obviously wrong ?

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