Re: Db2dclgn Indicator variables

Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I'd also love to see some kind of COBOL support for "null" values. Even
with the proposed COBOL 2008 features (of which ANY LENGTH PREFIXED is one)
I don't think there's anyway way to specify a field (other than an actual
pointer, of course), as having a value of "NULL". But I'd love to see it! I know that C# has support for this. Never seen any other language with it,
though.

VB handles nulls, as does Java.

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