Support for VARCHAR DB data type

[GitMensch]

I'd like to read and write to data defined as VARCHAR(100).
Ideally the data should always be padded to the COBOL field size on reading via SELECT and have an auto-trim on write / when used in the WHERE clause.

How to achieve that?

Note: using procob this was solved by defining the data asCHAR/VARCHAR in the database and using

           EXEC SQL VAR COBFIXNAME           IS CHARF     END-EXEC.
           EXEC SQL VAR COBVARNAME           IS VARCHAR2  END-EXEC.

in the COBOL program. Ideally this could be used with ocesql, too.

[n-isaka]

We were able to confirm the operation with PROCOB here as well.
I too think it would be a good idea to create a similar specification.
I will consider adding the feature.