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SAS/ACCESS Interface to CA-DATACOM/DB: Reference |
The interface view engine always reads in the CA-DATADICTIONARY information when it processes a view descriptor, because CA-DATADICTIONARY contains information that is not in the view descriptor, for example, the element entity.
Consider the following matters regarding CA-DATADICTIONARY usage by the interface view engine:
numeric: types B (binary), 2 (halfword), 4 (fullword), 8 (double), N(Zoned), D (packed decimal) | |
float: types L (long float), S (short float) | |
alpha: types C (char), H (hex) | |
Xtype: types B > 8 bytes, D and N > 16 bytes, E (extended float), G (graphics), K (Kanji), T (PL/1 bit), Y (double byte character set), Z (mixed DBCS and single byte) |
Note: Xtype is an artificial type. It represents
a CA-DATACOM/DB type that cannot be
fully handled in the SAS System.
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