TEXT and BYTE (LOB) types

Informix®

Informix provides the TEXT, BYTE, CLOB and BLOB data types to store very large texts or binary data.

Legacy Informix 4GL applications typically use the TEXT and BYTE types.

Genero BDL does not support the Informix CLOB and BLOB types.

SQLite

SQLite 3 provides the TEXT and BLOB native data types for large objects storage.

Solution

The SQLite database interface can convert BDL TEXT data to SQLite TEXT and BYTE data to SQLite BLOB.

The TEXT and BYTE types translation can be controlled with the following FGLPROFILE entries:
dbi.database.dsname.ifxemul.text = { true | false }
dbi.database.dsname.ifxemul.byte = { true | false }
For more details see IBM Informix emulation parameters in FGLPROFILE.