Clarification about data types

[vivekgadwal]

Background: We have XML data stored in database under the data type of XML. I have looked it up in IBM's site and the serialized XML data type can hold 2,147,483,647 bytes. While reading this field, we are reading it as "LongVarBinary". Then we apply RawToString() function and store it in a "LongVarChar" field before sending this to XML Parser. This parser will break the XML down into different fields for further processing.

Questions: I am not sure how much a LongVarChar data type without any length specified can hold in it within DataStage. In DB2, that length is provided as 32,767 bytes. We have recently encountered an XML which got very close to this limit.
1) I am wondering if the 32,767 bytes is indeed the limit of unbounded LongVarChar data type.
2) Also, is there any other way to handle even bigger XML documents coming through from DB2?

Thanks!