Gen 8.6 BLOB and CLOB support

Products

• Gen
• Gen - Workstation Toolset
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia

Issue/Introduction

Application is client/server with Windows and Java Web clients to z/OS CICS/DB2 servers via ECI connection.
Have the need to use a CLOB data type. Is it currently supported?

Environment

Release: 8.6

Resolution

There is no support for the CLOB data type in Gen for any platform. Varying length text fields are limited to 4094 bytes.

The BLOB data type is only supported on distributed platforms i.e. not on z/OS.
If an attempt is made to generate z/OS COBOL code for an action diagram containing a BLOB data type this error will be reported:
BLOB attributes are not supported by the targeting platform / language: MVS/COBOL

Additional Information

Related Community Idea: Extend GEN Varchar-Fields to 32K - F49118