Is it mandatory to use DCLGEN? If not, why would you use it
at all?
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Answer / abhisek
No,it is not mandatory to use DCLGEN,it is used by the pre-
compiler to validate the table names,view names and column
names during pre-compile.
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Answer / guest
Just an addition to the above answer. By using the DCLGEN,
the program would use correct data types and column lengths
which avoids stage 2 processing of predicates, if the data
types and lengths mismatched.
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