BINARY and VARBINARY are new DB2 version 9.1 SQL datatypes. Use BINARY and VARBINARY to expand support for binary string data, which can contain structured data, encrypted data, compressed data, images, pictures, and other values that are not text-oriented. The BINARY datatype is a fixed-length binary string. The VARBINARY datatype is a variable-length binary string.
Replication Agent for DB2 UDB sends the BINARY and VARBINARY values
to Replication Server, which then passes the values to the target database
for the replicated table. Because some databases may not support BINARY or VARBINARY values,
you may need to configure Replication Server and Replication Agent
for DB2 UDB to ignore these columns.
See the IBM DB2 version 9.1 for z/OS documentation for more information.
