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Char

CHAR (field-length)

A data type containing a fixed length alphanumeric string with a maximum length of field-length characters. The field-length must be a positive number not exceeding 4056 in XDB mode (254 in DB2 mode). This data type can be defined as FOR BIT DATA. If the column is specified as NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, null values will be replaced by spaces.

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