I have a column in my database that needs to be 20,000 characters. I defined it as varchar(max), using a cobol program I was able to insert the data using a host variable defined as Pic X(20000), however when I tried to read the data using the same host variable no data is retrieved but I get a sqlcode of 0. The primary key is a numeric value. I tried to use the host variable syntax definition as described in the documentation but that didn't work either. Any ideas on how I can get this to work? We are using Acucobol version 8.1.3.1.

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