The IfxDocDesc data type

IfxDocDesc is a named row type, defined in the HCL OneDB™ Text Descriptor DataBlade® Module for use with the . It is defined as follows: 
CREATE ROW TYPE IfxDocDesc
(
   format VARCHAR(18),
    version VARCHAR(10),
    location LLD_Locator,
    params LVARCHAR
);

The HCL OneDB Text Descriptor DataBlade Module is one of the DataBlade modules required by the .

The main advantage of the IfxDocDesc data type is that you can choose to store your text documents either on the operating system file system or in the database. The two types of storage are available for different text documents within the same column of the same table.

The following sections describe the IfxDocDesc data type in more detail and how to use it when inserting data into a column.