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 Loading LONG Values 

In a command for loading application data, use the syntax rule longfile_spec in longfile_spec_mlt to specify for each column with the internal database data type LONG the name and path of the data stream from which you want to load the LONG values.

When you load LONG values, you can only use the LONGFILE <valCOLUMN_NAME> '<valFILE_NAME>' variant of the syntax rule, since you can only use column names in the load command, and no column IDs (see: column_descriptor).

When you load LONG values, you must differentiate between the following cases:

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