Long string fields

A long string field is assigned to the long string data type. Long string fields allow users to enter more than 4000 bytes in a single field.

You can encrypt long string fields up to a maximum of 2 MB in the IBM® OpenPages® with Watson™ repository.

There are two sub types of the long string field: medium and large. The size of medium long string fields is fixed to 32 KB. The size of the large long string fields is set by default to 256000 bytes, but that can be increased by changing the Platform > Repository > Resource > Large Text > Maximum Size setting.

Tip: In the user interface, the OpenPages folder is hidden in the Administration Settings folder hierarchy. To author an XML settings path, include the OpenPages folder after the Settings folder in the path.

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For more information about long string data types, see Data types.
For more information about setting display types for long string fields, see Configuring display types for long string fields.
For more information about filtering on long string fields, see Utilities for filtering on long string field content in an Oracle database and Utilities for filtering on long string field content in a Db2 database.
For more information about concatenating simple string fields into a long string field, see String concatenation utility
For more information about encrypting fields, see Configure field level encryption.