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Suzanne
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When I create MFDs for some of our Oracle tables, a lot of alpha fields have an alpha variable data type. We are encountering issues when trying to join to other tables due to the data type of the field unless we change the actual and usage to alpha fixed. Is there a way to make the default alpha fixed (or just alpha)? We are concerned that we will encounter bigger issues if we continue to change each field manually - especially if we drop the synonym and recreate.


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Francis Mariani
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On the Create Synonym page of the WF Server Console there's an option "SET CONVERSION LONGCHAR" - I *think* if you set that to ALPHA, it should generate alpha data types in the Master.


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The option is set to alpha...but it doesn't give the option for alpha variable or alpha fixed. It automatically sets it to variable.


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Francis Mariani
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This might be of help:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...631003671#2631003671


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It appears that adding ENGINE DB2 SET VARCHAR OFF in the WF Server profile corrected the issue. (Before this change, we were not able to join on certain fields, because the field was A18 in some tables and A18v in others. We still can't join using the join tool, but the fields join successfully in the text editor.) Thanks for your help!


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