Host structure indicator arrays in PL/I applications that use SQL

This figure shows the syntax for valid indicator arrays.

Host structure indicator array

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>>-+-DECLARE-+--+-variable-name--(--dimension--)-----------+---->
   '-DCL-----'  |    .-,------------------------------.    |   
                |    V                                |    |   
                '-(----variable-name--(--dimension--)-+--)-'   

>--+-BINARY-+--FIXED--+-----------------+----------------------->
   '-BIN----'         '-(--precision--)-'   

>--+---------------------------------------+--;----------------><
   '-Alignment and/or scope and/or storage-'      

Note: Dimension must be an integer constant between 1 and 32766.