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QUESTION POSED ON: 21 March 2003
Is it possible to save a BLOB in an iSeries database? If so, how large can it be?

Yes, starting with V4R4 a BLOB size of 15MB was supported and since V5R1 the limit for a BLOB column is 2GB.

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