External Data Type |
Virtual Machine |
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External Data Type |
Virtual Machine |
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C-ISAM can store data on disk in several ways; any of these can be read from or written to using a PROIV application. The C-ISAM data types and the corresponding entries at the PROIV file definition field External Type is as follows:
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C-ISAM Type |
PROIV Type |
Comments |
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CHAR |
ALPHA |
ASCII character data |
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INT |
PCOMP1 |
Two-byte integer |
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LONG |
PCOMP2 |
Four-byte integer |
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DECIMAL |
C-DEC |
Decimal Format, storage format required |
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FLOAT |
C-FLT |
Single Precision floating point |
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DOUBLE |
C-DBL |
Double Precision floating point |
C-ISAM Data Types and PROIV
All other PROIV external types can be used with C-ISAM files, but non-PROIV applications may need additional programming to convert them.
Topic ID: 720080