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Data Conversion for Adabas

The conversion tables shown in this section list the Natural data formats and their corresponding data types in an Adabas database.

For general information on data access and data conversion, see the list of related documentation in Related Topics.

This section covers the following topics:


Adabas

Data Type Adabas Data Format Natural Data Format/Length
alphanumeric A (n) An
binary B (n) Bn
fixed

F (n)
but: F8

In
I4

float G (n) Fn
packed P (n) P (2 * n - 1)
unpacked U (n) Nn
wide character (Unicode) W (n) U (n/2 rounded down)

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Related Topic

The following documentation sections relate to converting data from Adabas:

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