API information format

API names contain verbs that are similar to the i5/OS™ licensed program: change, create, remove, and retrieve.

• API description
  For most APIs, the API description information has similar section headings.
• API format
  The format section in API information describes a format name.
• API field descriptions
  The field descriptions section describes the fields found in the format section.
• API error messages
  The error messages section lists error messages that can occur when you use the API.
• Extracting a field from the format
  The format section describes where the field that you want is located within the receiver variable.
• Processing lists that contain data structures
  Some API information contains a list where each entry in the list is itself a data structure.