Special host-language programming considerations are discussed in the following pages. Included is information on language restrictions, host language specific include files, embedding SQL statements, host variables, and supported data types for host variables.
| Note: | FORTRAN support stabilized in DB2 Version 5, and no enhancements for FORTRAN support are planned for the future. For example, the FORTRAN precompiler cannot handle SQL object identifiers, such as table names, that are longer than 18 bytes. To use features introduced to DB2 after Version 5, such as table names from 19 to 128 bytes long, you must write your applications in a language other than FORTRAN. |