I believe the popular way to store images in a database is with a  datatype
of BLOB or it's variants.  I don't think this is supported by Image.  A
common method to overcome this while retaining Image is to put the image in
a file (TIFF, JPEG) into a file and maintain an index in the Image database
to that file.  Does Allbase support BLOBs? Didn't I read that some kind of
Binary Large Object (one really long record) record type is now supported
under MPE?

-dtd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Born, Ken [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 8:32 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: IMAGE Blobs
>
>
> Greetings,
> We are in the process of taking proposals for a new system.
> One of the
> requirements is that the database must be able to store
> images(Mugshots).
> Can IMAGE store images in its database?  Are there any plans
> to?  Would I
> need to migrate over to ALLBASE?
> Thanks...
>