VARCHAR becomes LONGVARCHAR while importing

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horserider
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VARCHAR becomes LONGVARCHAR while importing

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I imported a DB2 Stored Procedure that has 2 OUTPUT parameter as defined below

OUTPUT_1 VARCHAR(2000)
OUTPUT_2 VARCHAR(367)

When I see the METADATA after importing, both the columns became LongVarchar().

Any idea why Varchar Type Column is automatically changed to LongVarchar() in DataStage 7.5.2?
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I believe the "boundary" is a length of 4096, to comply with the ODBC 3.5 (and earlier) standard.
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