<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="reference" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Example: Use RTVOBJD" /> <meta name="abstract" content="In this example CL procedure, a Retrieve Object Description (RTVOBJD) command retrieves the description of a specific object." /> <meta name="description" content="In this example CL procedure, a Retrieve Object Description (RTVOBJD) command retrieves the description of a specific object." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="example, retrieving, object description" /> <meta name="keywords" content="example, retrieving, object description" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="retod.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rtobjd" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>Example: Use RTVOBJD</title> </head> <body id="rtobjd"><a name="rtobjd"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Example: Use RTVOBJD</h1> <div><p>In this example CL procedure, a <span class="cmdname">Retrieve Object Description (RTVOBJD)</span> command retrieves the description of a specific object. </p> <div class="section"><p>Assume an object called MOBJ exists in the current library (MYLIB).</p> <pre>DCL &LIB TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10) DCL &CRTDATE TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(13) DCL &USEDATE TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) DCL &USECNT TYPE(*DEC) LEN(5 0) DCL &RESET TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(7) . . . RTVOBJD OBJ(MYLIB/MOBJ) OBJTYPE(*FILE) RTNLIB(&LIB) CRTDATE(&CRTDATE) USEDATE(&USEDATE) USECOUNT(&USECNT) RESETDATE(&RESET)</pre> <p>The following information is returned to the program:</p> <ul><li>The current library name (MYLIB) is placed into the CL variable name &LIB.</li> <li>The creation date of MOBJ is placed into the CL variable called &CRTDATE.</li> <li>The date that MOBJ was last used is placed into the CL variable called &USEDATE.</li> <li>The number of days that MOBJ has been used is placed into the CL variable called &USECNT. The start date of this count is the value placed into the CL variable called &RESET.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="retod.htm" title="You can use the Retrieve Object Description (RTVOBJD) command to return the descriptions of a specific object to a CL procedure.">Retrieve object descriptions</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>