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Client APIs and toolsYou can use the HCL OneDB™ implementation of client APIs to develop applications for HCL OneDB™ database servers.
OneDB .NET Core ProviderThe .NET Core Provider for OneDB® is used for developing .NET applications.
HCL OneDB™ .NET Core Provider Guide
Type referenceAll of the classes described in these topics belong in the namespace Informix.Net.Core.
IfxClob classAn IfxClob represents a CLOB, which is a large block of character data that allows random access of its contents. You can treat a CLOB in much the same way you treat an operating system file. You can read or write to certain positions in the file without reading or writing through all of the data up to that position.

IfxClob class

An IfxClob represents a CLOB, which is a large block of character data that allows random access of its contents. You can treat a CLOB in much the same way you treat an operating system file. You can read or write to certain positions in the file without reading or writing through all of the data up to that position.

CLOBs and BLOBs, are both types of smart large objects. Both types share many of the same methods. A CLOB is different from a BLOB in that the data in it is treated as characters instead of bytes. This means that it is subject to code set conversion and other functions of the Global Language System (GLS). If a multibyte character set is being used then one character may require more than one byte to represent it in the CLOB.