Does anyone know if a visual basic string data type can be converted
to DB2 blob datatype?

I have all data in XML files and I use Visual Basic to read the
characters from the XML file and insert into the DB2 database. For
most common datatypes, the conversion from VB to DB2 is easy, example,
CInt to convert VB string to integer, CDbl to convert VB string to
double, etc.

But is there a way to convert from VB string to insert to a BLOB
(binary large object data type) field in DB2?

Thank you very much!