Version 9.5 contains new scalar functions that allow you to process your string data as a series of characters. You do not need to be aware of the byte representation for each character.
Each character in Unicode is made up of 1 to 4 bytes. To accommodate the variable character size, the following functions are new character-sensitive versions of the SYSIBM schema and one additional parameter to indicate the string unit. If you use the default SQL path and do not specify the string unit, the new versions of these functions are called. This behavior is compatible with the behavior in previous releases, but there are some differences. To call the same function available in previous releases, explicitly qualify the function name with the SYSFUN schema.INSERTLEFTRIGHTThe OVERLAY scalar function, which is new for Version 9.5, also supports character-based processing.
收起