<?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="Names in ILE RPG applications that use SQL" /> <meta name="abstract" content="Any valid ILE RPG variable name can be used for a host variable with the following restrictions." /> <meta name="description" content="Any valid ILE RPG variable name can be used for a host variable with the following restrictions." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="naming convention, ILE RPG, ILE RPG program, coding requirement" /> <meta name="keywords" content="naming convention, ILE RPG, ILE RPG program, coding requirement" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rzajpembedirpg.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="rzajprpiamco" /> <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>Names in ILE RPG applications that use SQL</title> </head> <body id="rzajprpiamco"><a name="rzajprpiamco"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Names in ILE RPG applications that use SQL</h1> <div><p>Any valid ILE RPG variable name can be used for a host variable with the following restrictions.</p> <div class="section"><ul><li>Do not use host variable names or external entry names that begin with the characters SQ, SQL, RDI, or DSN. These names are reserved for the database manager.</li> <li>The length of host variable names is limited to 64.</li> <li><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />The names of host variables must be unique within the program. The one exception is that if a stand-alone field, parameter, or both, are defined exactly the same as another stand-alone field, parameter, or both, the duplicated name is accepted.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></li> <li><img src="./delta.gif" alt="Start of change" />If a host variable is a duplicated name and does not belong to the exceptional category mentioned in the previous item, but does have the same type, the precompiler issues SQL0314 as a severity 11 error instead of its normal severity of 35. If you want to ignore these severity 11 errors, change the GENLVL parameter value on the <span class="cmdname">CRTSQLRPGI</span> command to be 11 or higher.<img src="./deltaend.gif" alt="End of change" /></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rzajpembedirpg.htm" title="SQL statements coded in an ILE RPG program must be placed in the calculation section.">Embed SQL statements in ILE RPG applications that use SQL</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>