Character string 

A character string is a data type that consists of a series of alphanumeric characters.

Examples: CHAR[ACTER], VARCHAR, LONG[VARCHAR], DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP

In a column definition, a code attribute can be entered for the data types CHAR[ACTER], VARCHAR and LONG[VARCHAR].

The following comparison options exist for data types CHAR[ACTER] and VARCHAR:

Character strings with the same code attribute

These character strings can be compared to each other.

Character strings with the code attributes ASCII, EBCDIC and UNICODE

These character strings are comparable with the character strings of code attributes EBCDIC, ASCII, and UNICODE, and with date, time and timestamp values.