Specifies the following behavior: o The length of character string parameters, columns, and domains is interpreted as characters, rather than octets. o Double quotation marks are interpreted as delimited identifiers. o Keywords cannot be used as identifiers unless they are enclosed within double quotation marks. o The ANSI/ISO SQL standard for updatable views is applied to all views created during compilation. Views that do not comply with the ANSI/ISO SQL standard for updatable views cannot be updated. The ANSI/ISO SQL standard for updatable views requires the following conditions to be met in the SELECT statement: - The DISTINCT keyword is not specified. - Only column names can appear in the select list. Each column name can appear only once. Functions and expressions such as max(column_name) or column_name +1 cannot appear in the select list. - The FROM clause refers to only one table. This table must be either a base table, global temporary table, local temporary table, or a derived table that can be updated. - The WHERE clause does not contain a subquery. - The GROUP BY clause is not specified. - The HAVING clause is not specified. o The DATE and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP data types are interpreted as SQL format. The SQL (ANSI) format DATE contains only the YEAR TO DAY fields. o Conversions between character data types when storing data or retrieving data raise exceptions or warnings in certain situations. For further explanation of these situations, see the Data_Types HELP topic. o You can specify DECIMAL or NUMERIC for formal parameters in SQL modules and declare host language parameters with packed decimal or signed numeric storage format. SQL generates an error message if you attempt to exceed the precision specified. o The USER keyword specifies the current active user name for a request. o A warning is generated when a NULL value is eliminated from a SET function. o The WITH CHECK OPTION clause on views returns a discrete error code from an integrity constraint failure. o An exception is generated with terminated C strings that are not NULL. o The default on constraint evaluation time is set to NOT DEFERRABLE INITIALLY IMMEDIATE.