| SQL adaptation guide for IBM DB2 UDB 10.x / Data dictionary | |
IBM® Informix® and Genero support the TEXT and BYTE types to store large objects: TEXT is used to store large text data, while BYTE is used to store large binary data like images or sound.
IBM DB2® supports the LONG VARCHAR/CLOB and BLOB/VARGRAPHIC/DBCLOB types for large objects storage
The DB2 database interface can convert BDL TEXT data to CLOB and BYTE data to BLOB. Note that DB2 CLOB and BLOB columns are created with a size of 500K, while Genero TEXT/BYTE program variables have a limit of 2 gigabytes; make sure that the large object data does not exceed this limit.