[Fwd: Re: additional drda datatypes]

[Rick Hillegas]

This issue is moving forward on a geologic time scale. Far enough 
forward that I have been asked: who can champion this issue in other 
(that is, not Sun) companies? Can one of the IBM folks find an IBM 
champion for this issue?

Thanks,
-Rick
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Rick,

Rick the working group for the DRDA standard is only operating in maintenance mode at present and we have no plans to initiate new Open Group development work on it. Therefore, while we appreciate your desire to have support for these new datatypes added to the DRDA standard, the Open Group is not currently resourced to do the necessary specification update work. However, if you can gather support within Sun and maybe other organizations sufficient to generate a draft DRDA Addendum Specification for adding support for these 5 ANSI SQL Datatypes, then we would could submit it through our Open Group approval process to approve it as an extension to the DRDA standard.

Regards,
Jim Pickel

Manager, DB2 Connectivity through DRDA
Phone: (408) 463-2332  T/L 543-2332
Internet address: pickel @us.ibm.com
Notes address: James Pickel/Santa Teresa/IBM
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Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>








Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
08/15/2005 01:53 PM






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Hello,

The DRDA spec seems to not support a number of ANSI SQL Datatypes, 
including the following:

BOOLEAN
NCHAR
NCLOB
NVARCHAR
XML

How can we go about adding these datatypes to a future revision of the 
DRDA spec?

Thanks,
-Rick





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